TABLE 3.

Effect of avocado consumption on skin elasticity at forehead

	Baseline	Week 4	Week 8	Baseline	Week 4	Week 8	4 wk p‐value	8 wk p‐value
	Avocado			Control
R0	0.24 ± 0.05	0.21 ± 0.06	0.17 ± 0.07**	0.24 ± 0.07	0.24 ± 0.09	0.23 ± 0.08	0.4761	0.0403
R1	0.09 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.04	0.06 ± 0.02**	0.09 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	0.08 ± 0.03	0.599	0.1504
R2	0.62 ± 0.14	0.64 ± 0.14	0.63 ± 0.10	0.59 ± 0.11	0.62 ± 0.09	0.63 ± 0.09	0.9619	0.7092
R3	0.28 ± 0.06	0.26 ± 0.06	0.21 ± 0.08**	0.28 ±0.07	0.28 ± 0.09	0.27 ± 0.09	0.7118	0.0594
R4	0.12 ± 0.05	0.10 ± 0.05	0.08 ± 0.04**	0.13 ± 0.04	0.11 ± 0.05	0.11 ± 0.05	0.8834	0.3963
R5	0.54 ± 0.14	0.61 ± 0.17	0.63 ± 0.25	0.49 ± 0.10	0.52 ± 0.14	0.54 ± 0.13	0.3096	0.9359
R6	0.90 ± 0.23	0.98 ± 0.28	1.09 ± 0.72	0.83 ± 0.22	0.89 ± 0.32	0.82 ± 0.27	0.9738	0.6428
R7	0.28 ± 0.06	0.30 ± 0.07	0.29 ± 0.05	0.26 ± 0.04	0.27 ± 0.04	0.29 ± 0.05*	0.5851	0.8275
R8	0.15 ± 0.05	0.14 ± 0.05	0.11 ± 0.06*	0.15 ± 0.06	0.15 ± 0.06	0.15 ± 0.07	0.6149	0.1001
R9	0.03 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.02	0.2591	0.9832

Data are means ± SD. AVO n = 20, CRT n = 19. * compared with baseline (*p ≤ .05,**p < 0.01); p‐value indicates comparison between avocado and control group.