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Invited review: Moving from dietary fat to fatty acids-New insights into how fatty acids affect digestibility, metabolism, and performance in dairy cows

Lock AL, Dos Santos Neto JM, de Souza J 2025 Journal of dairy science

Abstract

In dairy nutrition, "fat" broadly refers to lipid compounds primarily composed of fatty acids (FA), which play diverse roles in digestion, metabolism, and milk production. The main FA present in dairy cow diets are palmitic (16:0), stearic (18:0), oleic (18:1), linoleic (18:2), and linolenic (18:3) acids. In the…

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Dairy cow

Keywords

Oleic acidPalmitic acidEnergy partitioningMilk productionStearic Acid

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