Possible Interaction: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Sunflower Oil

“It is concluded that the feeding of a diet with sunflower oil instead of beef tallow improved apparent digestibility of SFA, MUFA and PUFA , increased the deposition:digestible intake ratio for SFA, but lowered that for MUFA and PUFA.”

“Both the SO and BO diets significantly reduced the percentages of all n−3 PUFA in comparison with the FO diet.”

“Lipid peroxidation was higher in postmitotic tissues, and sunflower oil led to a higher degree of polyunsaturation and peroxidation.”

“ Sunflower-oil vs lard feeding significantly increased the polyunsaturated fatty acid content of membrane diacylglycerophospholipids and the (22:0 and 24:0) content of long-chain fatty acids of sphingomyelin (p less than 0.05) from epididymal and perirenal adipocyte plasma membranes.”

“Frying with sunflower oil significantly increased PUFA , n-6, n-6/n-3, and desaturase indexes and lowered SFA, n-3, and PUFA/SFA compared to frying with olive oil.”

“Furthermore, deep frying larvae in sunflower oil increased the relative abundance of PUFAs.”

“In erythrocytes, the diet containing SO raised the contents of saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids and lowered that of monounsaturated fatty acids.”

“The diet with SO instead of BT significantly increased the incorporation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in adipose tissues, loin and liver at the expense of the sum of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids.”