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MILCHWISSENSCHAFT-MILK SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL, vol.58, no.1-2, pp.34-36, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Fatty acids (FA) contents of camel, goat and cow milk were determined by using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). They require no FA methyl or ethyl esters and the procedure is rapid and precise. It was found that camel milk lacked short chain FA (C-4-C-8), while goat milk approximately 23.8-fold and cow milk 16.4-fold more short-chain FA content than camel milk. The middle-chain FA (C-9-C-14) content of camel milk was about 2.5-fold as well as 1.5-fold lower than goat and cow milk, respectively. The long-chain FA (C-16-C-20) content of camel milk was about 1.5-fold as well as 1.2-fold more than that of goat and cow milk, respectively. The results showed that goat milk had 74.5% saturated FA (SFA), while cow and camel milk had 62.5% as well as 53.5% saturated FA, respectively. The monounsaturated FA (MUFA) contents of camel milk was 42.6%, which was about 2-fold as well as 1.2-fold more than that of goat and cow milk, respectively. The polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) was high in goat milk, which had about 1.1-fold and 1.4-fold, respectively, more PUFA than camel and cow milk.