Table 2.

Composition of the experimental diets (g/kg diet)^*.

Ingredients	Control	0.39% licorice oil extract (10 L)	1.95% licorice oil extract (50 L)
Corn starch	529.5	528.3	523.7
Casein milk	200	200	200
Sucrose	100	100	100
Corn oil	56.3	56.3	56.3
Cellulose	50	50	50
Mineral mixture	35	35	35
Vitamin mixture	10	10	10
L-Cystine	3.0	3.0	3.0
Choline bitartrate	2.5	2.5	2.5
Tert-butylhydroquinone	0.014	0.014	0.014
Licorice oil extract #	0.00	3.90	19.5
Triglyceride (Glyceryl trioctanoate) **	13.7	11.0	0.0

Control, control diet; 0.39% licorice oil extract (10 L), 0.39% licorice oil extract -supplemented diet, whose licorice oil extract dose was 10 times of recommended human doses; 1.95% licorice oil extract (50 L), 1.95% licorice oil extract -supplemented diets, whose licorice oil extract dose was 50 times of recommended human doses.

^#The licorice oil extract (Kaneka Glavonoid™; Kaneka, Osaka, Japan) contained licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) ethanolic extract at approximately 30% polyphenol with 3% glabridin, triglycerides (Glyceryl trioctanoate) at approximately 70%, and glycyrrhizex acid at below 0.005%.

^**Control and 0.39% licorice oil extract diet were added tiglyceride (glyceryl trioctanoate), in accordance with triglyceride (glyceryl trioctanoate) content in the 1.95% licorice oil extract diet.