Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Antiobesity and Antidiabetic Effects of Portulaca oleracea Powder Intake in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice

Table 1

Composition of diet formula (%).


Ingredient	CON⁽¹⁾	Ingredient	HFD⁽²⁾	HFD + PO5%	HFD + PO10%

Ground whole hard meal	34.90	Casein	26.50	25.18	23.85
Ground ^#2 yellow corn	21.00	L-cysteine	0.40	0.38	0.36
Ground whole oats	10.00	Maltodextrin	16.00	15.2	14.4
Wheat middlings	10.00	Sucrose	9.00	8.55	8.10
Fish meal (60% protein)	9.00	Lard	31.00	29.45	27.9
Soy oil	2.00	Soybean oil	3.00	2.85	2.7
Soybean meal (47.5% protein)	5.00	Cellulose	6.55	6.55	5.90
Alfalfa meal (17% protein)	2.00	Mineral mix⁽³⁾	4.80	4.56	4.32
Corn gluten meal (60% protein)	2.00	Calcium phosphate	0.34	0.32	0.31
Dicalcium phosphate	1.50	Vitamin mix⁽⁴⁾	2.10	2.0	1.89
Yeast-brewer	1.00	Choline bitartrate	0.30	0.29	0.27
Premixes	0.60	Blue food color	0.01	0.01	0.01
Ground limestone	0.50	Portulaca oleracea powder⁽⁵⁾	—	5.00	10.00
Salt	0.50	Energy (kcal/g) ⁽⁶⁾	5.10	4.86	4.61
Energy (kcal/g)	3.11	—

⁽¹⁾CON: control diet; HFD: high fat diet; HFD + PO5%: high fat diet + 5% P. oleracea powder; HFD + PO10%: high fat diet + 10% P. oleracea powder. ⁽²⁾HFD was composed of 60% kcal from fat (protein 23.5%, carbohydrate 27.3%, and fat 34.3% by weight). ⁽³⁾Mineral mixture according to AIN-93G-MX. ⁽⁴⁾Vitamin mixture according to AIN-93-VX. ⁽⁵⁾The powder was purchased from Hanbit Farm (Yeongdeok, Kyeongbuk, Korea) and composed of protein 13.4%, fat 1.9%, nitrogen-free extract 47.6%, ash 12.1%, and fiber 25.0% based on Standard Tables of Feed Composition from Korea National Institute of Animal Science. ⁽⁶⁾Calculated by Portulaca oleracea nutrient based on Food Data Central of U.S Department of Agriculture.