Table 2.
Liver weight, food intake, body weight gain and FER of the rats fed the diet for 15 days
Groups1) | Liver weight (g) | Food intake (g) | Body weight gain (g) | FER2) (%) |
G1 | 11.17±1.45NS3) | 285.51±19.10a4) | 49.97±12.55a | 0.18 |
G2 | 11.93±1.62 | 272.72±27.53a | 60.91±10.76a | 0.22 |
G3 | 11.26±0.92 | 260.48±10.35a | 55.20±8.09a | 0.21 |
G4 | 12.09±0.92 | 204.47±28.14a | 12.40±4.65a | 0.06 |
G5 | 11.83±0.76 | 216.76±23.92a | 27.54±8.03a | 0.12 |
Treatments of animals are shown in detail on Table 1.
FER= [body weight increased during experimental period(g)/total food intake during experimental period (g)]×100.
NS: not significant at p<0.01.
Values with different superscripts within the same column are significantly different at p<0.01.