Figure 4.

Body weight (A,B) and food consumption (C,D) were examined in spontaneously hypertensive rats (B,D) and Sprague–Dawley (A,C) rats fed high edible salt and Salicornia europaea extracts (SE) for six weeks. CTR–SD, control SD rat; HS–SD, high edible salt-fed SD rat (800 mg/kg/day); SE–SD, SE-fed SD rat (1400 mg/kg/day); CTR–SHR, control SHR; HS–SHR, high edible salt-fed SHR (800 mg/kg/day); SE–SHR, SE-fed SHR (1400 mg/kg/day). Values are expressed as mean ± SEM. “***” stands for p < 0.001 vs. week 0.