Effect of Dietary Grape Pomace and Seed on Ewe Milk and Meat Quality of Their Suckling Lambs

Table 2

Chemical composition of grape by-products and concentrates used in the diets. Fatty acid composition (g/100 g FAME) of the concentrates.

	Grape by-products		Concentrates
	Pomace	Seed	Control	Grape pomace (10%)	Grape seed (5%)
Dry matter (DM, %)	88.18	91.86	88.46	88.71	88.51
Organic matter (OM, % DM)	92.14	96.11	96.41	96.62	95.81
Ash (% DM)	7.86	3.89	3.59	3.38	4.19
Ether extract (%)	8.94	8.89	2.51	3.49	3.83
Crude protein (%)	13.26	10.87	19.28	17.09	16.96
Neutral detergent fibre (% DM)	36.26	55.81	14.03	15.87	17.75
Acid detergent fibre (% DM)	29.19	45.31	4.55	6.48	7.01
Acid detergent lignin (% DM)	17.65	33.15	0.02	1.49	2.08
Saturated fatty acids			39.80	38.47	37.70
C14:0			0.29	0.25	0.24
C16:0			18.10	16.10	16.10
C18:0			2.44	2.86	2.68
C20:0			0.47	0.36	0.36
Monounsaturated fatty acids			19.90	20.50	19.90
C18:1 n-9			18.41	18.86	18.40
C18:1 n-11			0.99	1.09	1.11
C20:1			0.56	0.50	0.46
Polyunsaturated fatty acids			58.63	59.92	60.60
C18:2 n-6			54.13	56.58	56.95
C18:3 n-3			4.50	3.30	3.60

FAME: total fatty acids methyl ester.