Nutritional, antioxidant and organoleptic properties of therapeutic-complementary-food formulated from locally available food materials for severe acute malnutrition management

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 4 Fatty acid profile (%) of therapeutic complementary foods

Samples	OG	P0	P1	P2	P3
Saturated fatty acids (SFA)
Caprylic acid	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a
Capric acid	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a
Lauric acid	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a	0.00^a
Myristic acid	0.32^c	0.32^c	0.36^b	0.31^c	0.76^a
Palmitic acid	25.89^a	13.10^b	12.21^e	12.77^c	12.55^d
Margaric acid	0.05^b	0.05^b	0.06^b	0.05^b	0.12^a
Stearic acids	3.62^d	4.13^c	6.14^a	6.15^a	5.32^b
Behenic acid	0.52^c	0.51^c	0.58^b	0.49^c	1.25^a
Lignoceric acid	0.07^b	0.07^b	0.08^b	0.07^b	0.18^a
Arachidic acid	0.27^b	0.08^c	0.03^d	0.77^a	0.00^e
ƩSFA	30.74^a	18.98^e	19.73^d	20.61^b	20.18^c
Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)
Palmitoleic acid	1.40^a	0.80^d	0.90^c	0.77^e	0.95^b
Oleic acid	24.25^e	46.15^a	44.21^d	44.40^c	44.97^b
Erucic acid	0.38^c	0.37^c	0.43^b	0.36^c	0.91^a
ƩMUFA	26.03^d	47.32^a	45.54^c	45.53^c	46.83^b
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
Linoleic acid	39.83^a	25.34^b	23.21^e	24.37^d	24.57^c
Linolenic acid	3.24^e	8.21^c	11.35^a	9.57^b	8.13^d
Arachidonic acid	0.09^b	0.09^b	0.10^b	0.08^b	0.21^a
ƩPUFA	43.16^a	33.64^c	34.66^b	34.02^d	32.91^e
MUFA/PUFA	0.60^c	1.40^a	1.31^b	1.33^b	1.42^a
PUFA/SFA	1.40^d	1.77^b	1.75^b	3.95^a	1.63^c
(PUFA + MUFA)/SFA	2.25^e	4.26^b	4.06^c	6.23^a	3.95^d

Mean values with the different superscript within the same row are significantly different from each other (p ≤ 0.05)
Keys: P0 = Full fat milk 30%, peanut 25%, soybean oil 15%, sugar 28%, mineral mix 2%, P1 = Orange-fleshed sweet potato 26.5%, sorghum 26.5%, full fat milk 30%, soybean oil 5%, sugar 10%, moringa leaves 2%), P2 = Soycake 15%, Orange fleshed sweet potato 26.5%, sorghum 26.5%, full fat milk 15%, soybean oil 5%, sugar 10%, moringa leaves 2%, P3 = Soycake 30%, Orange fleshed sweet potato 26.5%, sorghum 26.5%, soybean oil 5%, sugar 10%, moringa leaves 2%) and OG (100% sorghum)