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. 2012 Nov 22;151(2):263–268. doi: 10.1007/s12011-012-9548-9

Table 1.

Ingredient and nutrient composition of the diets (grams per kilogram diet)

Ingredient Control (C) Modified (M)
Casein 140 140
Wheat starch 625
Sucrose 100
Potato starch 50
Vitamin mixturea 10 10
Mineral mixtureb 35 35
Sunflower oil 40 40
Lard 150
Sodium chloride 35
Fructose 590
Total energy (kcal/100 g diet) 424 510
Total protein (% of energy) 13 13
Total fat (% of energy) 4 18

Control, control diet, modified, high fat, fructose and salt diet, n = 10 rats/group

aComposition of vitamin mixture (grams per kilogram mix): nicotinic acid (3), Ca pantothenate (1.6), pyridoxine (0.7), thiamin (0.6), riboflavin (0.6), folic acid (0.2), biotin (0.02), vitamin B12 (0.003); vitamin E (500 IU/g), vitamin A (500,000 IU/g), vitamin D3 (400,000 IU/g), vitamin K1 (0.08), choline bitartrate (200), powdered sucrose (777.15)

bComposition of mineral mixture (grams per kilogram mix): calcium carbonate (357), potassium phosphate monobasic (250), potassium citrate (28), sodium chloride (74), potassium sulfate (46.6), magnesium oxide (24), ferric citrate (6.06),zinc carbonate (1.65), sodium meta-silicate⋅9H20 (1.45), manganous carbonate (0.64), cupric carbonate (0.30), chromium chloride⋅6H20 (0.147), boric acid (0.0816), sodium fluoride (0.0635), nickel chloride⋅6H20 (0.0578), lithium sulfate⋅H20 (0.0263), sodium selenate anhydrous (0.0103), potassium iodate (0.010), ammonium paramolybdate⋅4H20 (0.0795), ammonium vanadate (0.066), powdered sucrose (209.758)