Alanine with the Precipitate of Tomato Juice Administered to Rats Enhances the Reduction in Blood Ethanol Levels

Table 1

Blood ethanol concentration and residual ethanol in the stomach 2 h after the administration of 2.0 g/kg of ethanol in Experiment .

	BEC	Residual amount of ethanol in stomach
	mg/mL	% dose
(First)
Control	1.52 (0.25)	16.9 (6.8)
Alanine	1.47 (0.17)	15.3 (7.4)
Tomato juice precipitate	1.17 (0.12)	22.4 (7.9)
Tomato juice precipitate with alanine	0.57 (0.15)	47.1 (3.7)
(Second)
Control	1.68 (0.10)	6.5 (3.0)
Alanine	1.66 (0.04)	2.4 (0.7)
Tomato juice precipitate	1.41 (0.18)	13.9 (5.1)
Tomato juice precipitate with alanine	0.95 (0.14)	28.1 (7.2)

Data are expressed as means and standard deviation (mean ± SD, = 3). Means values with different lowercase letters are significantly different (ANOVA post hoc Tukey’s HSD test, ) among four groups. The secondary experiment was constructed to confirm repeatability of their effects.