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Consumption of Chinese Tea-Flavor Liquor Improves Circulating Insulin Levels without Affecting Hepatic Lipid Metabolism-Related Gene Expression in Sprague-Dawley Rats

Table 4

Plasma total fatty acid profiles after consumption of TFL and TCL.


	TFL ( = 9)	TCL ( = 8)	EC ( = 8)	WC ( = 8)

14:0	0.44 ± 0.13	0.46 ± 0.11	0.53 ± 0.17	0.50 ± 0.10
15:0	0.33 ± 0.09	0.38 ± 0.09	0.36 ± 0.11	0.36 ± 0.06
16:0	17.30 ± 0.88	16.20 ± 0.99	16.92 ± 1.41	17.83 ± 0.99
18:0	8.27 ± 0.53	7.95 ± 0.62	7.94 ± 0.94	8.57 ± 0.86
20:0	0.41 ± 0.19	0.37 ± 0.06	0.39 ± 0.18	0.28 ± 0.07
SFA	26.76 ± 0.10^ab	25.37 ± 1.28^a	26.03 ± 1.26^ab	27.54 ± 1.14^b
16:1n7	1.26 ± 0.54	1.02 ± 0.35	1.00 ± 0.13	1.31 ± 0.22
18:1n9	8.19 ± 0.98^a	8.37 ± 1.53^a	12.43 ± 4.23^b	9.01 ± 0.88^a
18:1n7	1.85 ± 0.30	1.83 ± 0.13	1.82 ± 0.30	1.79 ± 0.17
20:1n9	0.27 ± 0.09^a	0.56 ± 0.33^b	0.25 ± 0.18^a	0.29 ± 0.13^ab
MUFA	11.57 ± 1.60^a	11.78 ± 1.78^ab	15.50 ± 4.41^b	12.40 ± 1.09^ab
18:2n6	19.93 ± 2.42	19.86 ± 1.39	20.26 ± 3.63	20.25 ± 1.73
18:3n6	0.94 ± 0.53	1.10 ± 0.59	0.79 ± 0.19	0.63 ± 0.17
20:2n6	0.25 ± 0.07	0.23 ± 0.03	0.22 ± 0.05	0.22 ± 0.01
20:3n6	0.71 ± 0.24	0.67 ± 0.21	0.53 ± 0.08	0.67 ± 0.12
20:4n6	30.00 ± 4.03	29.86 ± 2.34	26.61 ± 7.40	28.88 ± 1.73
22:4n6	0.28 ± 0.04^ab	0.25 ± 0.05^a	0.34 ± 0.07^b	0.28 ± 0.04^ab
N-6 PUFA	52.11 ± 2.05	51.98 ± 1.47	48.74 ± 5.01	50.94 ± 1.61
18:3n3	1.01 ± 0.35	1.07 ± 0.33	0.86 ± 0.29	1.11 ± 0.20
20:3n3	0.12 ± 0.04	0.13 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.07	0.10 ± 0.03
20:5n3	1.80 ± 0.41	2.23 ± 0.62	1.65 ± 0.35	1.69 ± 0.40
22:5n3	0.86 ± 0.17	0.90 ± 0.27	0.92 ± 0.18	0.86 ± 0.11
22:6n3	5.09 ± 0.50	5.28 ± 1.13	4.54 ± 1.03	4.49 ± 0.51
DHA + EPA	6.89 ± 0.72	7.52 ± 1.62	6.20 ± 1.09	6.18 ± 0.60
N-3 PUFA	8.89 ± 1.01	9.61 ± 2.14	8.10 ± 1.46	8.25 ± 0.76
Total PUFA	60.99 ± 1.98	61.59 ± 1.68	56.84 ± 5.97	59.20 ± 1.78
N-3/N-6 PUFA	0.17 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.04	0.17 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.02

TFL: tea-flavor liquor; TCL: traditional Chinese liquor; EC: ethanol control; WC: water control; SFA: saturated fatty acid; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acid; DHA: docosahexaenoic acid; EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid; Different letters represent statistically significant difference () between the two groups (e.g., a versus b, b versus c). No significant difference was observed if two groups contain the same letters (e.g., ab versus b, a versus ab).