Table 1.

Composition of the standard, rice, and barley diets.

	Standard Diet AIN-93G	Rice Diet	Barley Diet	Mixed Barley Diet (Rice Diet: Barley Diet = 1:4)
Milk casein	200	157.5	130.0	135.5
L-Cysteine	3	3	3	3
Corn starch	397.486	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pregelatinized corn starch	132	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sucrose	100	100	100	100
Soybean oil	70	65.8	57.8	59.4
Lard		50	50	50
Cellulose	50	45.8	0.0	9.2
Pregelatinized rice	-	530.5	-	106.1
Pregelatinized barley	-	-	611.8	489.4
AIN-93 mineral mix	35	35	35	35
AIN-93 vitamin mix	10	10	10	10
Choline bitartrate	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
tert-butylhydroquinone	0.014	0.014	0.014	0.014

The diet composition is indicted in g/kg diet.