›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 2733-2742.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2018.10.010

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Effect of Dietary Flaxseed Oil Supplementation on Yolk Fatty Acid Composition and Sensory Profile of Eggs

FENG Jia1, ZHANG Haijun2, WU Shugeng2, MIN Yuna1, QI Guanghai2, WANG Jing2, GAO Yupeng1   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Feed Biotechnology of Ministry of Agriculture & National Engineering Research Center of Biological Feed, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2018-03-26 Online:2018-10-20 Published:2018-10-20

Abstract:

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with graded levels of flaxseed oil on production performance,egg quality,yolk fatty acid composition,and sensory profile of eggs.Two hundred and eighty-eight HyLine Grey laying hens at the age of 40-week-old were randomly assigned to 4 dietary treatments with 8 replicates per group,9 chickens per replicate.The diets were isonitrogenous and isoenergetic,containing 0,0.5%,1.0% or 3.0% flaxseed oil,respectively.The trial lasted for 4 weeks with 1 week of prefeeding.The results showed as follow:①Laying performance and egg quality were not significantly influenced by dietary flaxseed oil supplementation (P > 0.05);②Feeding flaxseed oil-included diets resulted in a linear and quadratic increase of ALA,EPA,DHA and total n-3 PUFA contents in yolk (P < 0.05);③The results of sensory experiment showed that egg yolk aroma and flavor scores significantly decreased and the intensity of fishy aroma and flavor significantly increased in response to 3.0% dietary flaxseed oil supplementation (P < 0.05).Correspondingly,the acceptance scores was significantly decreased (P < 0.05).And there was a linear and quadratic change of above indexes with the increase of dietary flaxseed oil supplementation (P < 0.05).④The yolk n-3 PUFA content was significantly related to fishy aroma and flavor (P < 0.05),while acceptance scores of egg yolks decreased as the n-3 PUFA concentration increased (R2=0.801).In conclusion,adding flaxseed oil to diet could increase the total n-3 PUFA content of egg yolk,but there would be bad influence on the flavor of egg cause by high dosage,leading to the decrease of overall acceptability.The eggs were accepted when yolk n-3 PUFA concentration was less than 21.26 mg/g of yolk and acceptable scores greater than 5.

Key words: flaxseed oil; HyLine Grey laying hens; fatty acid composition; egg sensory profile; acceptance

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