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.