Table 2. Body weight, food intake, and feed efficiency ratio of db/db mice.

Variables	Lean control group	db/db control group	Daraesoon group
Initial body weight (g)	19.6 ± 0.5ns	20.5 ± 0.6	20.3 ± 0.5
Final body weight (g)	24.7 ± 0.8a	41.1 ± 1.2b	39.8 ± 1.3b
Weight gain (g/day)	0.103 ± 0.014a	0.421 ± 0.026b	0.397 ± 0.026b
Food intake (g/day)	3.3 ± 0.2a	4.3 ± 0.2b	4.0 ± 0.2b
Feed efficiency ratio1) (%)	3.2 ± 0.4a	9.9 ± 0.6b	10.1 ± 1.0b

Seven-week-old db/db mice were fed an AIN-93G diet or a diet containing 0.4% Daraesoon extract, whereas lean control group was offered the AIN-93G diet ad libitum for 7 weeks. Values represent mean ± SEM (n = 7).

NS, not significant; SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾Feed Efficiency Ratio (%) = Body Weight Gain (g/day)/Food Intake (g/day) × 100.

^a,bMeans within a row not sharing a common alphabet are significantly different at P < 0.05.