Comparative Study on the Fat Acids Profile from Buffalo Milk as Quality and Traceability Markers

  • Romolica MIHAIU Babes – Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca. Romania
Keywords: linoleic acid, linolenic acid, traceability, quality markers, buffalo.

Abstract

The nutritional aspects have begun to receive an increasing attention, particularly the short-chained ones, polyunsaturated, cis and trans. The conjugated fatty acids are potentially involved as positive or negative factors for human health (Wolff,1995; Williams, 2000). This study focuses on the compositional investigation of the fatty acids from buffalo milk, as quality and traceability markers making also a comparison with the cow milk. After the analysis made we established that the main fatty acid is the oleic one, in a percentage of 24,29% compared to the cow milk were its value is even higher 33,5%. In the case of the linoleic acid the percentage was again higher in the case of the cow milk samples (2,4%) compared to the buffalo milk (1,87). The situation is reversed at the linolenic acid, where we revealed a higher value in the case of the buffalo milk samples. The percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids is higher in the cow milk compared to buffalo milk.