Figure 1.

Food intake (A) and body mass gain (B) of rats treated or not with a high dose of FeSO₄ and diets added with either soybean oil or buriti oil. SC = control group fed a diet containing soybean oil and gavage with saline solution; BC = control group fed a diet containing buriti oil and gavage with saline solution; SFe = group fed a diet containing soybean oil and gavage with a high-dose FeSO₄; BFe = group fed a diet containing buriti oil and gavage with a high-dose FeSO₄. ^a Represents a significant difference compared with the SC; ^b Represents a significant difference compared with the SFe. Values in the vertical bars are mean ± SD of each rat group (Student’s t-test, p ≤ 0.05; n = 8 rats/group).