. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 27.

Published in final edited form as: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2008 Mar-Apr;32(2):169–175. doi: 10.1177/0148607108314758

Table 1.

Dietary Compositions in the Experimental Diets

	Diet, g/100 mL

	LCT	MCT	LCT/MCT	LCT/2mono
L-Emental nutrition	20.08	24.09	22.07	20.55
LCT oil	3.75	0.00	1.88	1.88
MCT oil	0.00	2.12	1.07	0.00
2-monododecanoin	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.76

L-Emental (Nutrition Medical, Buffalo, MN) nutrition is chemically defined diet intended for clinical use providing adequate amounts of all essential nutrients and containing protein as amino acids, carbohydrate as glucose, and which is very low in fat (100 g of L-Emental nutrition powder contains 0.3 g of sunflower oil). LCT, a diet containing 100% of long-chain triglycerides as lipid source; MCT, a diet containing 100% of medium-chain triglycerides as lipid source; LCT/MCT, a diet containing lipid source from 50:50 of LCT and MCT; LCT/2mono, a diet containing lipid source from 50:50 of LCT and 2-monododecanoin.