TABLE 2.

Demographic characteristics and anthropometry of Indian adults who participated in egg and spirulina with and without black tea experiments¹

Variables	Egg ± tea	Spirulina ± tea
Age, y	23.6 ± 2.5	23.7 ± 3.5
Weight, kg	55.3 ± 3.6	55.3 ± 2.2
Height, m	1.6 ± 0.1	1.6 ± 0.1
BMI, kg/m2	22.0 ± 2.8	21.0 ± 1.8
Hemoglobin, g/dL	12.7 ± 1.4	13.2 ± 1.6

¹Values are means ± SDs, n = 5 for egg ± tea (n = 3 women and n = 2 men) and n = 3 for spirulina ± tea experiment (n = 1 woman and n = 2 men), paired studies in subjects for egg and egg + tea; and spirulina and spirulina + tea.

²The subjects in spirulina ± tea were a subset from egg ± tea study.