Table 1.

Effects of dietary free glutamate supplementation on weekly food intake and the body weight of animals during treatment. Data presented as mean ± SD (n = 6).

	Food intake		Body weight
	Control	Glutamate	Control	Glutamate
Initial	12.65 ± 1.93	11.85 ± 0.82	160.17 ± 10.03	160.11 ± 11.11
Week 1	11.46 ± 0.72	10.84 ± 1.21	163.67 ± 10.98	161.33 ± 11.52
Week 2	10.92 ± 0.67	11.55 ± 1.95	165.05 ± 12.55	163.17 ± 11.28
Week 3	11.41 ± 1.55	11.91 ± 1.68	166.43 ± 12.62	165.83 ± 12.73
Week 4	11.82 ± 1.12	11.90 ± 1.38	168.33 ± 13.03	167.67 ± 13.92
Week 5	10.72 ± 0.75	10.67 ± 0.27	168.67 ± 12.69	169.66 ± 13.62

A non-significant effect was obtained by the repeated measure analysis when compared with control rats.