Effects of Roasting and Extrusion Puffing on the Antihypertensive Activity of Blended Grains in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Table 2

Effects of differently processed blended grains on growth performance in rats for 8 weeks.

	NC	MC	NPBG	RBG	EPBG
Body weight (g)	393 ± 2.17^a	341 ± 3.19^c	364 ± 1.43^b	349 ± 4.09^c	350 ± 2.32^c
Feed intake (g/day)	17.1 ± 0.09^b	17.9 ± 0.30^ab	18.3 ± 0.27^ab	18.9 ± 0.32^a	17.9 ± 0.08^ab
FER (%)	19.1 ± 0.26^a	14.0 ± 0.27^b	14.2 ± 0.12^b	13.9 ± 0.52^b	13.8 ± 0.34^b

NC, normal control; MC, model control; NPBG, nonprocessed blended grains; RBG, roasted blended grains; EPBG, extrusion puffed blended grains; FER, feed efficiency ratio. Data are expressed as the means ± standard error of the means. ^(a–c)Values with different letters within the same row are significantly different at .