A study on the causes for the elevated n-3 fatty acids in cows' milk of alpine origin

Lipids

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-202

  Leiber, Florian ^a   Kreuzer, Michael ^a   Nigg, Daniel ^a   Wettstein, Hans Rudolf ^a   Scheeder, Martin Richard Leo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; INORGANIC ACIDS;

ALPINE PASTURES; COWS' MILK; LOWLAND PERIODS; VEGETATION STATE;

FATTY ACIDS;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARACHIDONIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; MILK FAT; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PHYTANIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GRASS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MILK; NONHUMAN;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIETARY FATS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; MILK; PHYTANIC ACID; POACEAE; SWITZERLAND; TOCOPHEROLS;

LOLIUM;

EID: 17244373576     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-005-1375-3     Document Type: Article

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