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Effect of Dietary Fat Source on Lipoprotein Composition and Plasma Lipid Concentrations in Pigs^{1, 2,}

Nutritional Physiology Group, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

Most studies of the effects of dietary fat sources on plasma lipid components have used diets with extreme fat compositions; the current study was designed to more nearly mimic human dietary fat intake. Young growing pigs were fed diets containing either 20 or 40% of energy as soy oil, beef tallow or a 50/50 blend of soy oil and tallow. Different dietary fats did not affect concentrations of cholesterol, triacylglycerol or protein in plasma or major lipoprotein fractions. The concentration of phospholipid was less in plasma and in very low density lipoproteins with soy oil feeding than with tallow feeding. The weight percentage of cholesteryl ester in the low density lipoprotein fraction tended to be greater with 40% than with 20% tallow and tended to be less with 40% than with 20% soy oil. Phospholipid as a weight percentage of low density lipoprotein was least in pigs fed soy oil. Tallow feeding increased the percentage of myristic, palmitic, palmitoleic and oleic acids in plasma, relative to both other groups. Soy oil feeding increased the percentage of linoleic and linolenic acids. These moderate diets were not hypercholesterolemic, but they did alter plasma fatty acid composition and phospholipid concentrations in plasma and very low density lipoprotein.

KEY WORDS: • dietary fat • fatty acids • cholesterol • lipoproteins • pigs

¹ Supported in part by the Iowa Beef Industry Council.

² Journal Paper no. J-13685 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, IA. Project 2735.

³ To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Manuscript received 1 September 1989. Revision accepted 20 April 1990.