Table 3. Lipid biomarkers in plasma of lean Zucker rats, obese Zucker rats that received water (control), and obese Zucker rats that received 750 mg/kg/day of pepsin for 12 weeks.

Values are means ± SEM (n = 10).

Experimental groups	Lean Zucker	Control obese Zucker	Obese Zucker treated with pepsin hydrolysate
Cholesterol (mg/dl)	157.2±8.6	218.5±5.3 *	206.2±7.8
Triglycerides (mg/dl)	171.5±5.0	328.5±19.1 *	306.6±8.7
FFA (mM)	0.31±0.015	0.37±0.014 *	0.33±0.01 ♯

* P<0.05 obese vs lean rats

#P<0.05 obese rats treated with egg white hydrolysate vs control obese rats.