Table 2.

Lab animal body weights and diet efficiency

	N	N-K1	N-K2	HF	HF-K1	HF-K2
Initial body weight (g)	20.69 ± 0.35	20.46 ± 0.35	19.69 ± 0.29	19.69 ± 0.33	19.57 ± 0.29	19.50 ± 1.11
Final body weight (g)	35.34 ± 0.64	34.97 ± 0.92	35.39 ± 0.73	37.31 ± 0.34	35.24 ± 2.50	33.54 ± 1.57
Epididymal fat (g)	1.69 ± 0.08	1.49 ± 0.15	1.50 ± 0.14	2.04 ± 0.13*b	1.58 ± 0.15ab	1.36 ± 0.23#a
Peri-renal fat (g)	0.24 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.12	0.22 ± 0.02	0.26 ± 0.02b	0.22 ± 0.07ab	0.16 ± 0.07#a
Retroperitoneal fat (g)	0.50 ± 0.04	0.45 ± 0.03	0.49 ± 0.05	0.58 ± 0.01*	0.49 ± 0.09	0.44 ± 0.04
Total fat (g)	2.43 ± 0.13	2.26 ± 0.25	2.20 ± 0.21	2.89 ± 0.15*b	2.30 ± 0.20ab	1.95 ± 0.33#a
Food intake (g)	239.85 ± 9.00	248.31 ± 0.60	223.95 ± 10.55	180.51 ± 3.94***	153.60 ± 9.17	155.72 ± 14.34
FER	0.06 ± 0.00	0.06 ± 0.00	0.07 ± 0.00	0.09 ± 0.01**	0.10 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.12

Values represent the means ± SEM (n = 7); Values are significantly different between the N and HF groups at *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001 according to Mann-Whitney U test; The ANOVA test and data with different superscript letters within the same row are significantly different by Duncan test. ^#p<0.05.