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Table 1. Analysis of fat percentage obtained in different zones of the department of Caldas.

Sample number	Zone	Sample	Percent fat	Average between zones	Variance	Standard deviation	ANOVA (p-value)	Significance	Tukey post-hoc test
1	Pacora	M1	49.24	48.3467	52.4385	7.2414	0.3048
2	Pacora	M2	40.70
3	Pacora	M3	55.10
4	Aranzazu Business 3	M1	35.92	34.1433	5.8456	2.4178	0.7942
5	Aranzazu Business 3	M2	31.39
6	Aranzazu Business 3	M3	35.12
7	Aranzazu Dario	M1	39.81	37.4967	148.0136	12.1661	0.9676
8	Aranzazu Dario	M2	24.34
9	Aranzazu Dario	M3	48.34
10	Salamina Business 3	M1	61.25	50.3833	100.5349	10.0267	0.2238
11	Salamina Business 3	M2	48.41
12	Salamina Business 3	M3	41.49
13	Salamina Business 2	M1	30.80	41.7167	142.7432	11.9475	0.6742
14	Salamina Business 2	M2	39.87
15	Salamina Business 2	M3	54.48
16	Salamina San Pablo	M1	36.55	23.5667	128.1808	11.3217	0.2189
17	Salamina San Pablo	M2	15.75
18	Salamina San Pablo	M3	18.40
19	Aranzazu Business 1	M1	8.52	10.2733	25.1540	5.0154	0.01020	*	Difference with Salamina Business 1
20	Aranzazu Business 1	M2	6.37
21	Aranzazu Business 1	M3	15.93
22	Salamina Business 1	M1	82.15	59.0400	1,820.7133	42.6698	0.03918	*	Difference from Aranzazu Business 1
23	Salamina Business 1	M2	85.17
24	Salamina Business 1	M3	9.80
25	Aranzazu Business 2	M1	28.25	28.4400	13.4593	3.6687	0.4367
26	Aranzazu Business 2	M2	24.87
27	Aranzazu Business 2	M3	32.20

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*p < 0.05.

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to the Vice-Rectory of Research and Graduate Studies of the Universidad de Caldas for funding the project. To the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation for the support received through the call 907: “Convocatoria jóvenes investigadores e innovadores en el marco de la reactivación económica 2021” and to the Secretary of Agriculture of the Department of Caldas for providing the samples used during this research.

Author contributions

JPBA: Writing—original draft, Formal analysis, Visualization. APO: Methodology, Software. JETS and EAVN: Investigation, Supervision. JAFL: Investigation, Validation. GTO: Writing—review & editing, Funding acquisition. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

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