. 2022 Sep 1;8(6):2511–2520. doi: 10.1002/vms3.923

TABLE 7.

Blood parameters at day 42 of age in Ross 308 male broilers (n = 24) fed different levels of green tea extract (GTE) or powder (GTP), a neutral control (NC) or a positive control (PC)

Treatment	Glucose (mg/dl)	Total cholesterol (mg/dl)	Triglycerides (mg/dl)	HDL Cholesterol (high‐density lipoproteins) (mg/dl)	LDL Cholesterol (low‐density lipoproteins) (mg/dl)	VLDL (mg/dl)
NC	238^ab ^*	201^a	119^a	61	117^a	23.8^a
PC	240^a	173^b	117^a	58	91^ab	23.3^a
GTE0.2	219^abc	168^b	108^ab	67	79^bc	21.6^ab
GTE0.3	213^abc	169^b	85^bcd	75	78^c	17.0^bcd
GTE0.4	203^abc	160^b	75^cd	74	71^c	15.0^cd
GTP1	198^bc	164^b	103^abc	66	78^c	20.6^abc
GTP2	193^c	165^b	93^abcd	67	79^c	18.6^acd
GTP3	183^c	133^c	74^d	70	49^d	14.8^d
p Value	0.04	0.0001	0.008	0.18	0.0001	0.008
SEM (standard error of mean)	5.39	4.05	4.30	1.74	3.83	0.859

Means within each column with common superscript do not differ significantly at p < 0.05.

NC: negative control; PC: positive control; GTE: green tea extract; GTP: green tea powder.