. 2015 Jul 16;7(7):5905–5915. doi: 10.3390/nu7075260

Table 1.

Cecum parameters of rats were fed mutagen N-nitroso-N-methylurea (MNU) and fermented beetroot juice.

Index	C	CJ	M	MJ	SEM	Diet		Juice		D × J
Index	C	CJ	M	MJ	SEM	C	M	0	+	P
Tissue mass ¹	2.09	2.88	2.90	3.02	0.004	2.89	2.96	2.93	2.95	0.682
Digesta mass ¹	10.25	10.14	9.85	9.37	0.028	10.20	9.61	10.05	9.76	0.947
NH₃ ²	0.260 ^a	0.209 ^b	0.272 ^a	0.226 ^c	0.694	0.234	0.249	0.266 ^a	0.217 ^b	<0.05
pH of digesta	6.77	6.94	6.70	6.76	0.029	6.82	6.74	6.73	6.85	0.263

¹ mg·g⁻¹ body weight (BW); ² mg/g digesta; C—Basic diet; CJ—Basic diet and fermented red beetroot juice; M—Basic diet and mutagen N-nitroso-N-methylurea (MNU); MJ—Basic diet; mutagen MNU and fermented red beetroot juice; ^a,b,c—p ≤ 0.05; SEM—Standard errors of the means (standard deviation for all rats divided by square root of rat number, n = 32).