Table 3.

Effect of meat-based diets on fecal NOC concentrations in rats^§

	NOC concentration (nmol/g feces)a
Studyb	3	2	2	1
Dietary Fat	7%	14%	28%	28%
Group
lard and caseine	1.38 ± 0.64	0.47 ± 0.18	1.10 ± 0.49
oil and caseine		0.29 ± 0.10*	0.72 ± 0.27*	1.05 ± 0.11
beef	0.28 ± 0.13 c	0.20 ± 0.08**	0.27 ± 0.20**
chicken	0.86 ± 0.78	0.43 ± 0.22	0.41 ± 0.18**
pork	0.50 ± 0.49c
bacon	14.42 ± 5.43c	9.24 ± 2.09c	13.67 ± 3.08c	22.04 ± 2.83c

^§diet composition is given in Table 1

^amean ± SD

^bNo statistical comparison can be made between columns because studies were done at one year intervals.

^cSignificantly different from control by Dunnet test (p<0,01)

^*Significantly different from control by Dunnet test (*, p<0,05;

^**p<0,01 without the bacon group.

NOC level in bacon-fed rats was high, thus the SD was large and masked the other differences.