Effect of sunflower seed supplementation on the fatty acid composition of muscle and adipose tissue of pasture-fed and feedlot finished beef
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Abstract
This study examined the effects of whole sunflower seed (WSS) supplementation on pasture and in finishing diets on the fatty acid profile of muscle [gastrocnemius (GN), longissimus thoracis (LT), intercostals (IC)] and adipose tissue [subcutaneous (SQ), intermuscular (IM)]. Ninety-six yearling steers averaging 410 kg were randomly allocated to three pasture (P) dietary treatments: (1) supplemented with WSS (P-WSS, n = 48); (2) supplemented with cracked barley grain (P-BAR, n = 24), and (3) not supplemented (P-CON, n = 24). Steers rotationally grazed meadow bromegrass-alfalfa pasture for 66 d. After 66 d on pasture, half the steers from each dietary treatment were trucked to a feedlot where they were adjusted to finishing diets. The remaining 48 steers continued with their dietary treatment on stockpiled pasture for an additional 47 d (SD = 11) until they were slaughtered directly off pasture. In the feedlot, half the steers from each pasture dietary treatment were fed either a control (83% rolled barley, 10% alfalfa hay, 5% barley silage, 1% molasses and 1% vitamin/mineral premix; F-CON) or a WSS supplemented diet (68% rolled barley, 15% WSS, 10% alfalfa hay, 5% barley silage, 1% molasses and 1%; F-WSS). Provision of WSS to steers grazing pasture for 113 d followed by direct slaughter increased cis-9, trans-11 CLA content in the muscles by 17.0 to 29.1% (GN, 0.570 vs. 0.467; LT, 0.515 vs. 0.399; IC, 0.531 vs. 0.454 mg 100 mg -1 fat) and in adipose tissue by 32.0% in IM (0.636 vs. 0.482 mg 100 mg -1 fat) and 40.3% in SQ (0.839 vs. 0.598 mg 100 mg -1 fat) fat depots compared with control steer slaughtered directly off pasture. On pasture supplementation of WSS also increased C18:1 trans-11 content in muscle by 20.1 to 40.8% and in IM adipose tissue by 55.0%. The inclusion of WSS in finishing diets increased CLA cis-9 trans-11 content in muscle by 31.5 to 209.0% and in adipose tissue by 40.7% in the SQ fat and 25.6% in the IM fat. It also increased C18:1 trans-11 content in muscle by 80.0 to 207.3% and in adipose tissue by 181% in the IM fat and 224% in the SQ fat. Strong, positive relationships were observed between tissues in the concentration of CLA cis-9 trans-11, C18:1 trans-11 and C18:3 (R 2 , 0.69–0.88; P < 0.0001). The results indicate that increasing the dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids in beef cattle diets increased the levels of CLA cis-9 trans-11 and C18:1 trans-11 in muscle and fat tissues. Key words: Beef, pasture, feedlot, fatty acid profile, conjugated linoleic acids, vaccenic acid
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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