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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Biochem. 2015 Sep 2;27:123–135. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2015.08.027

Table 1.

The effect of diet composition on total body weight gain, total food intake, food conversion efficiency, and total caloric intake

Diets BWG n=9–10 FI n=5 FCE n=5 Kcal n=5
LF 7.0 ± 0.6b 399 ± 8b 28.6 ± 1.2a 1534 ± 26b
HF-3G 13.1 ± 0.7a 465 ± 7a 17.8 ± 0.8b 2051 ± 26a
HF-3S 11.5 ± 0.7a 424 ± 20ab 18.7 ± 0.9b 1874 ± 80a
HF-5G 11.3 ± 1.1a 409 ± 12ab 18.4 ± 1.1b 1799 ± 45ab
HF-5S 12.6 ± 1.0a 438 ± 25ab 17.8 ± 1.5b 1957 ± 124a

Mean ± SEM without a common lower case letter in a column differ (p<0.05) using one-way ANOVA and Student’s t-test. BWG= total body weight gain (g). FI= total food intake per cage (g). FCE= food conversion effeciency per cage. Kcal= total caloric intake per cage (kcals).