. 2018 Apr 4;10(4):445. doi: 10.3390/nu10040445

Table 2.

Growth parameters and small intestinal indices of rats fed experimental diets *.

	Start BW	Gain	Food Intake	Small Intestine
	g	g	g	Mass ¹	pH	Sucrase ²	Maltase ²	Lactase ²
Group (n = 8)
C	176	170	647	1.96	7.29	6.69 ^b	42.4	1.78
F	176	170	623	2.12	7.62	10.3 ^a	51.6	2.87
C + ME	175	164	648	1.92	7.01	6.55 ^b	40.7	1.94
F + ME	175	162	637	2.09	7.38	7.23 ^b	43.0	2.62
C + DE	175	159	656	1.91	7.29	7.43 ^b	41.1	2.24
F + DE	176	155	652	2.17	7.45	7.60 ^b	46.9	2.74
SEM	1.251	2.619	9.045	0.027	0.047	0.260	1.268	0.094
Extract (E)
- (without)	176	170	635	2.04	7.46 ^a	8.49 ^a	47.0	2.32
ME	175	163	643	2.01	7.19 ^b	6.89 ^b	41.8	2.23
DE	175	157	654	2.04	7.37 ^a,b	7.51 ^b	44.0	2.49
p value	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.033	0.007	NS	NS
Diet (D)
Corn starch	175	164	650	1.93 ^b	7.20 ^b	6.89 ^b	41.4 ^b	1.95 ^b
Fructose	175	162	637	2.13 ^a	7.48 ^a	8.37 ^a	47.2 ^a	2.74 ^a
p value	NS	NS	NS	<0.001	0.001	0.001	0.021	<0.001
Interaction E × D
p value	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.002	NS	NS

* C, control fed a diet with 65.8% corn starch; F, fed a diet with 65.0% fructose (F) added at the expense of corn starch; C + ME, fed a corn starch-diet with a monomeric ET-rich extract; F + ME, fed a fructose-diet with a monomeric ET-rich extract; C + DE, fed a corn starch-diet with a dimeric ET-rich extract; F + DE, fed a fructose-diet with a dimeric ET-rich extract. ^a,b Mean values within a column with different superscript letters were shown to be significantly different (p < 0.05); differences among the groups (C, F, C + ME, F + ME, C + DE, and F + DE) are indicated with superscripts only in the case of a statistically significant interaction E × D (p < 0.05). ¹ mass with contents, g/100 g BW; ² µmol/min/g protein; BW, body weight.