Dietary n-3 PUFA May Attenuate Experimental Colitis

Table 1

Fatty acid composition of the experimental diets.

	CTRL	n-3 diet	n-6 diet	n-9 diet
Total fat (g/1000 g of diet)	49.7	49.4	49.7	49.8
Saturated fat (g)	10.2	9.9	9.3	9.6
MUFA (g)	29.8	26.2	20.1	32.8
PUFA (g)	9.8	13.3	20.3	7.4
n-6 fatty acids (g)	7.9	7.3	19.1	6.1
n-3 fatty acids (g)	1.8	6.1	1.2	1.3
n-9 fatty acids (g)	29.3	25.8	19.8	32.2
n-3/n-6/n-9 ratio	1 : 4:16	1:1 : 4	1 : 16:16	1:4:24