Table 1.

Effects of fructose- and sucrose-enriched diets on the development of MetS

Researchers (Year)	Types of diet	Treatment length	Strains of animal	Components of metabolic syndrome
				Obesity	Hyperglycemia	Hypertension	Dyslipidemia
Thirunavukkarasu et al. [41]	High-fructose diet	3 weeks	Male Wistar rats	-	✓	✓	-
Sanchez-Lozada et al. [42]	High-fructose diet (60 %)	8 weeks	Male Sprague-Dawley rats	-	-	✓	✓
	Fructose drinking water (10 %)			-	-	✓	✓
Shahraki et al. [105]	High-fructose diet	8 weeks	Male Wistar rats	✗	✓	-	✓
Mahmoud and Elshazly [106]	Fructose drinking water (10 %)	12 weeks	Male Wistar rats	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mansour et al. [107]	High-fructose diet	16 weeks	Male Wistar albino rats	✓	✓	-	✓
Mamikutty et al. [108]	Fructose drinking water	8 weeks	Male Wistar rats	✓	✓	✓	✓
Di Luccia et al. [109]	High-fructose diet	8 weeks	Male Sprague-Dawley rats	✓	✓	-	✓
Jurgens et al. [35]	Fructose drinking water (15 %)	10 weeks	Male NMRI mice	✓	-	-	-
	Sucrose soft drink (10 %)			✗	-	-	-
	Non-caloric soft drink			✗	-	-	-
Oron-Herman et al. [51]	High-sucrose diet	7 weeks	Male spontaneously hypertensive rats	✗	✓	✓	✗
	High-fructose diet		Male Sprague-Dawley rats	✗	✓	✓	✓
Aguilera et al. [45]	Sucrose drinking water (30 %)	21 weeks	Male Wistar rats	✓	-	✓	✓
Vasanji et al. [49]	Sucrose drinking water (32 %)	10 weeks	Male Sprague-Dawley rats	-	✓	-	✓
Pang et al. [50]	High-sucrose diet	6 weeks	Male Sprague-Dawley rats	-	✗	✓	✓

Table represents the effects of fructose- and sucrose-enriched diets on each component of MetS. The symbol ‘✓’ and ‘✗’ indicate the presence and absence of significant effect of the sign of MetS respectively, while ‘-’ indicates the effects on the component not being evaluated in the study