Reproductive Toxicity of Theobroma cacao: Increase in Survival Index, Nongenotoxic, and Proimplantation Potential

Table 9

Reproductive function of female rats crossed with males that received UNCP for 48 days before mating.

Doses	Quantity/amount per female			Preimplantation loss, %	Postimplantation loss, %
	Corpora lutea	Number of implants	Viable fetuses/full-term pups
Cocoa HD	15.88 ± 0.52	14.13 ± 0.69	10.25 ± 2.24	10.56 ± 4.43	29.93 ± 13.98
Cocoa TD	14.89 ± 0.59	13.44 ± 0.69	12.44 ± 0.77	9.55 ± 3.65	6.96 ± 4.16
Vehicle control	15.90 ± 0.87	12.70 ± 1.36	12.30 ± 1.34	21.04 ± 7.47	2.87 ± 1.92
Historical control	14.13 ± 0.88	13.00 ± 1.09	12.00 ± 1.21	8.44 ± 3.93	8.49 ± 2.80