The Efficiency of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Bran in Ameliorating Blood and Treating Fatty Heart and Liver of Male Rats

Table 3

Effect of barley bran on food intake (FI) body weight gain (BWG) and food efficiency ratio (FER) in hypercholesterolemic rats for 8 weeks.

Biological evaluation parameters	Treatments	G1	G2	G3	G4
	statistics	−ve control	+ve control	5% barley bran	10% barley bran
Water consumption; mL/day	Mean ± SE	30.29 ± 0.67^a	30.55 ± 0.63^a	31.50 ± 0.66^a	32.66 ± 0.57^a
	LSD 0.05 = 1.342
	-test		−0.32^NS	−1.36^NS	−3.45^***
FI g/day	Mean ± SE	17.07 ± 0.19^a	17.12 ± 0.20^a	17.20 ± 0.21^a	17.05 ± 0.21^a
	LSD 0.05 = 0.341
	-test		−0.40^NS	−0.46^NS	0.58^NS
BWG; g/8 week	Mean ± SE	32.83 ± 1.85^a	37.00 ± 1.06^b	34.50 ± 0.88^c	33.50 ± 3.47^b
	LSD 0.05 = 6.330
	-test		−2.66^***	4.83^***	5.98^***
BWG; %	Mean ± SE	17.83 ± 1.08^a	20.09 ± 6.50^b	18.50 ± 0.53^c	17.70 ± 2.04^d
	LSD 0.05 = 3.780
	-test		−2.97^*	2.78^**	3.20^**
FER; g/day	Mean ± SE	0.031 ± 0.00^a	0.026 ± 0.00^b	0.033 ± 0.00^d	0.032 ± 0.00^c
	LSD 0.05 = 0.010
	-test		0.02^***	−0.04^***	−0.03^***
FER %	Mean ± SE	3.199 ± 0.18^a	3.80 ± 0.87^d	3.37 ± 0.08^b	3.27 ± 0.33^c
	LSD 0.05 = 1.033
	-test		−1.04^***	1.45^***	1.17^***

Data are represented as mean ± SE. -test values; ^***. ANOVA analysis: within each row, means with different superscript (a, b, c, or d) are significantly different at , whereas means superscripts with the same letters mean that there is no significant difference at . LSD: least significant difference.^*Significant, ^**highly significant and ^***very high significant.