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Table 1 Diet and feeding scheme of different dietary combinations of fat (sunflower oil) and of vitamin A

From: Effect of high versus low doses of fat and vitamin A dietary supplementation on fatty acid composition of phospholipids in mice

Ingredients (g/kg diet)

Diet groups

Low Fat (LF, 2 %)

VA normal

Normal Fat (NF, 5 %)

VA deficient

Normal Fat (NF, 5 %)

VA normal

Normal Fat (NF, 5 %)

VA high

High Fat (HF, 25 %)

VA normal

Starch

430

415

415

415

325

Sucrose

295

280

280

280

170

Sunflower oil

20

50

50

50

250

Casein

180

180

180

180

180

Mineral mix

45

45

45

45

45

Vitamin Mixa

10

10

10

10

10

Total VA content (RE/kg diet)

2,500

0

2,500

326,500

2,500

  1. aVitamin mix in the normal-fat diet group provided different concentrations of vitamin A: vitamin mix without vitamin A (VA deficient diet), vitamin mix with vitamin A containing 2,500 RE/kg retinyl palmitate (RETPAL) (VA normal diet), vitamin mix with high vitamin A containing in total 326,500 RE/kg (VA high diet). Sunflower oil was added as dietary fat, which contained either 2 % (low-fat diet), 5 % (normal-fat diet) or 25 % (high-fat diet)
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Genes & Nutrition

ISSN: 1865-3499

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