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Stereospecific distribution of fatty acids in bovine milk fat triglycerides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Peter W. Parodi
Affiliation:
Fats Research Laboratory, The Butter Marketing Board, Hamilton Central, Queensland, Australia, 4007

Summary

Pancreatic lipase deacylation was used to study the variation in distribution of the fatty acids at position sn-2 of milk fat triglycerides of a series of butters and of the milk obtained from a cow on a restricted feeding regimen. Selected samples were analysed for stereospecific distribution of their triglyceride fatty acids which were found to be esterified in a non-random manner. The percentage of a fatty acid at position sn-3 generally decreased with increase in the chain length of the acid; the reverse occurred at position sn-1. There was no major variation in the stereospecific distribution of fatty acids throughout the year; the variation that did occur was exhibited mainly by the medium chain length acids. Variation was greater at positions sn-1 and sn-3 than at position sn-2 and when the proportion of an acid varied at position sn-1 it usually varied at position sn-3 in the reverse manner.

For the milk samples it was found that change in triglyceride fatty acid composition was not associated with random increases or decreases of fatty acids at the 3 stereospecific positions. With changing triglyceride fatty acid composition (6:0, 8:0, 10:0, 12:0, 14:0, and 16:0 decreasing and 18:1 increasing) the percentage of 6:0, 8:0, 10:0, 12:0, 14:0 and 16:0 acids at position sn-3 decreased while the percentage of 18:0 and 18:1 acids increased. These changes were compensated for by changes in the opposite direction at positions sn-1 and sn-2.

Type
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Copyright
Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1979

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