The nutritional composition and anti-obesity effects of an herbal mixed extract containing Allium fistulosum and Viola mandshurica in high-fat-diet-induced obese mice

Table 3 The effects of each diet on body weight, food intake, and the food efficiency ratio in HFD-induced obese mice

	ND	HFD	AFE	VME	(AFE + VME)
Final body weight, g	30.70 ± 0.52^a	45.10 ± 1.10^b	38.40 ± 1.72^c	37.80 ± 0.85^c	33.75 ± 1.47^a
Body weight gain, g/day	0.18 ± 0.01^a	0.38 ± 0.02^b	0.25 ± 0.03^c	0.22 ± 0.02^c	0.17 ± 0.03^a
Food intake, g/day	5.14 ± 0.00	2.92 ± 0.00	2.84 ± 0.00	2.82 ± 0.00	2.29 ± 0.03
Food efficiency ratio, %	3.57 ± 0.14^a	13.10 ± 0.57^b	9.78 ± 0.97^c	7.80 ± 0.66^c	7.20 ± 1.01^c

Food efficiency ratio (%) = body weight gain/food intake × 100. The values are expressed as the mean ± SE (n = 5)
Values within arrow with different letters are significantly different from each other at p <0.05 as determined by Tukey’s range test

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