Table 2.

Responses to dietary medium-chain triglycerides for 5 days (N = 11)

	Before (n = 11)	After (n = 11)	p value
Free fatty acids 8:0, μmoL/L	2.7 (1.4)	20.5 (10.4)	0.0010
Acyl ghrelin, fmoL/mL	8.6 (9.1)	20.0 (19.7)	0.0049
Des-acyl ghrelin, fmoL/mL	53.7 (44.3)	38.0 (27.8)	0.0098
Total ghrelin, fmoL/mL	62.3 (53.1)	57.9 (45.9)	0.3652

Data are means (SD). Blood samples for the free fatty acids 8:0 in plasma were collected at 10:00 AM (2 h after the morning intake of 5 g of medium-chain triglycerides). Blood samples for acyl ghrelin and desacyl ghrelin were collected at 4:00 p.m. (4 h after the 12:00 p.m. intake of 5 g of medium-chain triglycerides, when the mean concentration of acyl ghrelin was the highest among the sampling periods. Change between before and after dietary MCT for 5 days by the Wilcoxon signed rank test