Table 6. Chemical and fatty acid composition of deer meat on different feeding regimes

T1 T2 T3 T4
Chemical composition, %
Moisture 75.1 75.3 74.7 74.1
Crude fat 0.88 0.76 1.13 1.51
Crude protein 22.5 23.0 23.3 23.6
Crude ash 1.02 1.03 1.02 1
Fatty acid composition, %
Myristicacid (C14:0) 7.23A ± 0.27 8.43A ± 0.74 7.90A ± 0.23 5.30B ± 1.48
Palmiticacid (C16:0) 35.5 ± 1.56 35.6 ± 1.97 36.0 ± 1.43 33.3 ± 1.51
Palmitoleicacid (C16:ln7) 6.90 ± 1.56 7.28 ± 0.58 9.64 ± 1.53 7.15 ± 1.51
Stearicacid (C18:0) 18.6 ± 4.23 17.9 ± 0.48 18.1 ± 5.70 18.2 ± 2.47
Oleicacid (C18:ln9) 24.2 ± 2.70 22.7 ± 3.43 23.7 ± 3.33 25.9 ± 2.94
Linoleicacid (C18:2n6) 3.04 ± 0.28 4.64 ± 0.62 3.89 ± 1.32 4.33 ± 0.31
γ-Linoleicacid (C18:3n6) 0.15 ± 0.01 0.18 ± 0.06 0.13 ± 0.04 0.12 ± 0.02
Linolenicacid (C18:3n3) 0.24 ± 0.05 0.30 ± 0.08 0.27 ± 0.05 0.19 ± 0.08
Eicosenoicacid (C20:ln9) 0.31 ± 0.06 0.37 ± 0.04 0.28 ± 0.07 0.30 ± 0.05
Arachidonicacid (C20:4n6) 1.07 ± 0.18 1.87 ± 0.12 1.49 ± 0.38 1.07 ± 0.41
SFA 63.3 ± 5.34 62.1 ± 2.92 62.1 ± 6.55 58.8 ± 3.59
UFA 36.7 ± 5.34 37.9 ± 2.92 38.0 ± 6.55 41.2 ± 3.59
MUFA 31.4 ± 4.17 30.3 ± 4.00 32.2 ± 5.95 33.4 ± 4.30
PUFA 4.50 ± 0.15 7.60 ± 1.19 5.78 ± 1.56 5.65 ± 0.74
PUFA/SFA 0.07 0.12 0.10 0.10