Euterpe edulis Extract but Not Oil Enhances Antioxidant Defenses and Protects against Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Induced by a High-Fat Diet in Rats

Table 3

Vitamin E content in lyophilized extracts and oil of E. edulis fruits.

Components	LEE	LDEE	EO
α-tocopherol	32.17 ± 0.61	2.10 ± 0.30	140.45 ± 3.56
β-tocopherol	1.50 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.01	7.10 ± 0.07
γ-tocopherol	1.71 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.01	7.37 ± 0.03
Total vitamin E^1	35.38 ± 0.61	2.31 ± 0.03	154.92 ± 3.67
α-tocopherol activity	33.09 ± 0.62	2.16 ± 0.03	144.74 ± 2.60

LEE, lyophilized extract of E. edulis fruits; LDEE, defatted lyophilized extract of E. edulis fruits; EO, E. edulis oil. ¹Obtained by summing the concentrations of all isomers, with a weight of 1 for α-tocopherol and 0.3 for β- and γ-tocopherol. The results were expressed as mean of five replicates ± standard deviation. Means followed by the same letter in the line do not differ statistically among themselves.