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Content of Lipid Nutrients in the Milk of Fulani Women

Seline N. Okolo, MD

Dorothy J. VanderJagt, PhD

Yung-Sheng Huang, PhD

Lipid Research Laboratory at the Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories.

Lu-Te Chuang, MS

Abbott Laboratories

Jennifer R. Mata, MS

Andrew A. T. C. Tsin, PhD

Robert H. Glew, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Room 249 BMSB, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA.

Little is known about the nutrition of the infants of the Fulani, migratory nomads of the western Sahel of Africa. Milk was collected from 18 Fulani women 10 to 30 days postpartum and the fatty acid compositions of the triacylglycerol and phospholipid fractions were determined by capillary gas-liquid chromatography. De novo fatty acids (10:0-14:0) comprised 36.3 12.7% of fatty acids of the triacylglycerols. Compared to the milk of various populations worldwide, the milk of the Fulani women contained adequate proportions of oxlinolenic acid (0.50 ± 0.16%) and arachidonic acid (0.42 ± 0.22%), but relatively low amounts of linoleic acid (9.95 ± 2.13%) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (0.15± 0.08%). In addition, the milk of the Fulani women contained adequate concentrations of P-carotene (1.58 ± 0.69 Rtgfdl) and vitamin A (42.7 ± 40.3,ug/dl), but very low levels of vitamin E (0.1 1 ± 0.10 mg/dl). These data indicate that exclusively breastfed infants of Fulani women were receiving relatively low amounts of critical fatty acids and vitamin E.

Key Words: breast milk • docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) • essential fatty acids • fat-soluble vitamins • Fulani

Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 15, No. 2, 113-120 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/089033449901500208


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