Milk Fat Depression and Trans- 11 to Trans- 10 C18:1 Shift in Milk of Two Cattle Farming Systems

Simona Rinaldi, Michela Contò, Salvatore Claps, Cinzia Marchitelli, Gianluca Renzi, Alessandra Crisà and Sebastiana Failla
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Simona Rinaldi: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy
Michela Contò: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy
Salvatore Claps: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), S.S. 7 Via Appia, Bella Muro, 85051 Bella, Italy
Cinzia Marchitelli: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy
Gianluca Renzi: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy
Alessandra Crisà: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy
Sebastiana Failla: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacoltura (Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture), Via Salaria 31, Monterotondo, 00016 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Milk fat depression (MFD) syndrome, a consistent decrease in milk fat content, is related to important changes in fatty acid composition due to feed imbalances and the consequent ruminal metabolism alteration. Milk produced in two different farming systems was compared: Holstein Friesian fed with unified in intensive production and Podolica raised on a pasture in an extensive system. Milk chemical characteristics and fatty acid composition were determined comparing milk with a normal fat level (>3.8%) to milk with a low fat level (<3.2%) in each breeding system. Holstein Friesian milk showed the decrease in trans -11 and increase in trans -10 C18:1 (shift from trans- 11 to trans- 10 C18:1) in low fat with respect to normal fat milk with a consequent decrease in the trans -11/ trans -10 C18:1 ratio. Even conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), C18:2 cis- 9, trans- 11, was lower while CLA trans -10, cis -12 was higher in low fat milk than in normal fat milk from Holstein Friesian. These changes, that are indicators of MFD syndrome, were not found in Podolica milk between fat levels. Holstein Friesian milk showed less short-chain fatty acids (9.48 % vs. 11.05%, p < 0.001), trans vaccenic acid (C18:1 trans -11, 0.51% vs. 3.39%, p < 0.001), rumenic acid (CLA C18:2 cis- 9, trans- 11, 0.32% vs. 1.45%, p < 0.001) and total CLA (0.53% vs. 1.91%, p < 0.001) contents than Podolica milk. Further losses of these human healthy nutrients in low fat Friesian milk reduced the nutritional quality of the milk, while the milk from animals raised on the pasture was of better quality even when the level of fat was low.

Keywords: extensive milk production; milk low fat disease; fatty acids; conjugated linoleic acid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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