Lipids: Roman and digestion absorption Flashcards
What are grasses rich in?
Poly unsaturated fatty acids
What are the three sources of lipids in ruminant diet?
Forages, grains, fat supplements
Forages are rich in what type of lipids?
 Glycolipids
In rumen metabolism, forages and concentrate Are converted into what three things?
Glycerol, galactose, free fatty acids
Glycerol and galactose are converted into what to be absorbed?
Volatile fatty acids
Free fatty acids if unsaturated, go through what to be absorbed into the small intestine?
Biohydrogenation
What is bio hydrogenation?
The addition of protons to unsaturated fatty acids
What in the ruminant animal secretes lipases to hydrolyze the backbone of fatty acids?
Microbes
In bio hydrogenation, what is the first step that converts cis double bonds to trans?
Isomerization
