Serum Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of a Broccoli and Cabbage

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Serum Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of a Broccoli and Cabbage Mixture in Rats: Comparison with Spinach, Celery, Carrot, and Tomato Downloaded by UNIV OF ROCHESTER on April 10, 2017 | http://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: September 19, 2008 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2008-0993.ch040

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Hirohisa Suido , Akira Takeuchi , Taketoshi Makino , Toshio Tanaka , and Satoshi Nagaoka 2

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Health Care Research and Development Division, Sunstar Inc., 3-1 Asahimachi, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1195, Japan 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Rheumatic Diseases, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Deptartment of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan 3

Effects of broccoli, cabbage and other vegetables such as spinach, celery, carrot and tomato on lipid metabolism were investigated in rats. The rats were fed cholesterol enriched basal diets, with or without 5% of eachfreeze-driedvegetable, for 10 or 12 days. Serum total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) + very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)-cholesterol (LDL+VLDL-C) levels in broccoli group (2,3 and 1.6 mmol/L, respectively on the average) were significantly (p