Bovine milk lipids composition

Jensen, R.G. (2000). The composition of bovine milk lipids January 1995 to December 2000. Journal of Dairy Science 85 295-350. 

Table 4.1. Fatty Acid Composition of Bovine Milk Lipids as of August 1983.

The composition and structure of bovine milk fat have been reviewed extensively. There are early reviews by Morrison (1970), Christie (1978, 1995), Jensen and Clark (1988), and Jensen and Newberg (1995) recent articles include a comprehensive review of recent research by Jensen (2002) and two book chapters by Vanhoutte and Huyghebaert (2003), and Zegarska (2003). Bovine milk lipids are similar to the milk lipids of other species as they are largely composed of triacylglycerols however, there are also minor amounts of diacyl-glycerols, monoacylglycerols, free (unesterified) fatty acids, phospholipids and... 

Jensen, R.G., Newberg, D.S. 1995. Milk Lipids B. Bovine milk lipids. In, Handbook of Milk Composition (R.G. Jensen, ed.), pp. 543-575, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 

Few compilations of the extensive fatty acid distributions in butter fat have been made since Iverson et al. (17) reported quantitative data on 82 fatty acids that were detected by means of urea fractionation and gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) (Table 6). Table 7 provides the fatty acid composition of bovine milk lipids. 

Phospholipid Composition of Bovine Milk Lipid Globule Membranes... 

Bovine milk fat is made up of 97-98 (wt% of total lipids) triacylglycerols accompanied by much smaller amounts of diacylglycerols (0.36%) and monoacylglyc-erols (0.03%), free cholesterol (0.31%), trace amounts of cholesteryl esters, phospholipids (0.60%), and minor amounts of free fatty acids. For reviews of the composition of bovine milk lipids, the reader is referred to Christie (4) and Jensen and Clarke (5). More than 400 fatty acids have been identified in milk fat, although it is generally accepted that 15 major and 12 minor fatty acids dominate the fatty acid spectrum. The major fatty acids found in milk are long chain (Cj. , myristic Ci6-o. palmitic Cjg., stearic Cjg.j, oleic) and the minor fatty acids are short chain... 

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