Results
Body weight, food intake and organ weight
The body weight, daily food intake, and organ weights are
presented in Table 1. High fructose diet did not affect food intake.
While feeding high fructose diet increased final body weight
(407.7 g vs 429.8 g), GTE treatment suppressed the increase of
final body weight over 4 week study. Although the significant
difference between final body weights of HGTE and HMGT
groups was not observed, the effect of GTE on body weight gain
tended to be lower compared to that of MGTE treated rats. The
administration of GTE reduced food intake in HGTE group
significantly (P < 0.05), but the MGTE did not.
Significant liver weight increases were observed in high
fructose fed rats with the mean increase in absolute liver weight
of high fructose fed rats compared with controls being 40%. The
administration of GTE and MGTE also produced statistically
significant decreases in the weights of epididymal fat and
retroperitoneal fat pad in high fructose fed rats.