Table 1.

Palatable food intake and microstructure of consummatory behavior of control and intrauterine protein-restricted (PR) rats

	SCM intake (g)	Meal duration (s)	Initial licking rate (1/s)	Mean licking rate (1/s)	Mean cluster size (licks)	Mean cluster duration (s)
Control	9.5 ± 1.1	342 ± 40	6.3 ± 0.1	6.2 ± 0.1	59.3 ± 5.6	9.6 ± 1.0
PR	14.1 ± 1.2*	441 ± 28	6.2 ± 0.0	6.0 ± 0.1	61.6 ± 7.3	10.2 ± 1.2

Data are presented as means ± SEM, n = 8–9 for sweet condensed milk (SCM) intake and n = 7–8 for all other parameters

*p   < 0.05