An Overview of Plant Phenolic Compounds and Their Importance in Human Nutrition and Management of Type 2 Diabetes

doi:10.3390/molecules21101374

Table 1

Fasted body weight, body weight gain, tissue weight, ratio of tissue-to-body weight and hemoglobin A1 of rats after the experiment for four weeks ^a [23].

Wt, Wt Gain and Ratio	Normal	Control	Crude Extract of V. dilatatum Fruit-Low	Crude Extract of V. dilatatum Fruit-High
Final body wt (g)	337.8 ± 17.7	238.2 ± 22.6 ^c	239.5 ± 19.4 ^c	244.7 ± 12.6 ^c
Body wt gain (g)	142.4 ± 14.5	55.2 ± 16.2 ^c	56.4 ± 14.2 ^c	60.1 ± 7.7 ^c
Liver wt (g)	10.65 ± 0.73	8.96 ± 0.72 ^c	8.30 ± 0.64 ^c	8.02 ± 0.83 ^c
Kidney wt (g)	2.462 ± 0.189	2.208 ± 0.263	1.895 ± 0.310 ^c	1.846 ± 0.359 ^c
Pancreas wt (g)	0.946 ± 0.180	0.597 ± 0.076 ^c	0.632 ± 0.151 ^c	0.664 ± 0.081 ^c
Tissue-to-body wt ratio ^b Liver (g/100 g)	3.162 ± 0.294	3.771 ± 0.216	3.485 ± 0.378	3.288 ± 0.434
Kidney (g/100 g)	0.730 ± 0.071	0.930 ± 0.111 ^c	0.789 ± 0.093	0.751 ± 0.115
Pancreas (g/100 g)	0.279 ± 0.042	0.252 ± 0.032	0.266 ± 0.067	0.271 ± 0.032
Hemoglobin A1 (%)	2.16 ± 0.18	4.27 0.60 ^c	3.29 ± 0.84 ^c	2.65 ± 0.36 ^d

^a Rats were fasted for 20 h after the experimental period of 4 weeks. Data represent the mean ± SD of five rats. ^b Tissue weight per 100 g of body weight. Significant difference is indicated from the normal ^c and control ^d groups at p < 0.05.