RAISED OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID LEVELS IN PIGS FED FLAX
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Animal Science
- Vol. 70 (1) , 251-254
- https://doi.org/10.4141/cjas90-029
Abstract
Young growing pigs fed a creep feed containing 5% flax for 8 wk had significantly higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids in liver, kidney, heart, skin, subcutaneous adipose tissue, and muscle than pigs fed the same diet containing no flax. Increased amounts of desaturation-elongation products of alpha-linolenic acid were observed in liver, heart, kidney and brain. Key words: Flax, alpha-linolenic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, linoleic acid, arachidonic acidThis publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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