Maternal dietary resistant starch does not improve piglet’s gut and liver metabolism when challenged with a high fat diet

Table 3 Total SCFA production and molar ratios of acetate, propionate and butyrate in the large intestinal contents of the piglets born from DS or RS sows and fed CON or HF diets

	Maternal treatment	Piglet treatment	Total SCFA (mg/g)	% acetate	% propionate	% butyrate
Caecum	DS	CON (n = 8)	9.24^ab	62.49	27.03	10.08
	DS	HF (n = 9)	7.62^b	59.18	29.5	9.73
	RS	CON (n = 9)	9.29^a	59.52	28.24	10.19
	RS	HF (n = 12)	10.09^a	56	29.89	9.19
		Global SEM	0.31	0.85	0.44	0.27
	P-values	P sow	0.03	0.06	0.36	0.70
		P piglet	0.48	0.04	0.02	0.23
		P interaction	0.04	0.95	0.64	0.55
Proximal colon	DS	CON (n = 8)	8.89	60.4	28.02	10.54
	DS	HF (n = 9)	8.76	58.3	28.55	10.26
	RS	CON (n = 9)	9.58	59.3	28.69	10.53
	RS	HF (n = 12)	10.29	56.2	29.31	9.5
		Global SEM	0.23	0.76	0.46	0.27
	P-values	P sow	0.01	0.30	0.47	0.49
		P piglet	0.50	0.09	0.56	0.24
		P interaction	0.33	0.74	0.96	0.50
Distal colon	DS	CON (n = 8)	7.93	55.01^a	22.64	14.23
	DS	HF (n = 9)	8.89	51.03^b	23.23	16.24
	RS	CON (n = 9)	9.35	52.51^ab	21.97	16.36
	RS	HF (n = 12)	8.61	54.91^a	22.95	15.11
		Global SEM	0.22	0.68	0.36	0.44
	P-values	P sow	0.19	0.60	0.53	0.57
		P piglet	0.80	0.55	0.29	0.67
		P interaction	0.06	0.02	0.79	0.07

DS digestible starch diet, RS resistant starch diet, CON control diet, HF high fat diet, SCFA short chain fatty acids

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