Table 3.
Body weight gain, food intake, food efficiency ratio and water intake of STZ-induced diabetic rats fed the exper imental diets

Experimental groups1)	N	STZ	STZ-M	STZ-G	STZ-MG
Initial body wt. (g)	203.88±5.383)NS4)	196.00±6.26	196.75±5.66	195.00±5.10	194.00±5.27
Final body wt. (g)	332.13±4.94a5)	241.50±5.70b	251.13±6.03b	247.75±7.18b	2.62±4.10b
Body weight gain (g/day)	4.58±0.55a	1.62±0.37b	1.94±0.48b	1.88±0.62b	2.43±0.39b
Food intake (g/day)	29.49±0.37c	39.22±0.83a	32.49±0.63b	32.67±0.69b	31.84±0.63b
FER2) (%)	0.16±0.02a	0.04±0.01b	0.06±0.01b	0.06±0.06b	0.07±0.04b
Water intake (mL/day)	38.25±0.59c	151.13±2.51a	106.88±2.97b	109.25±2.74a	101.13±3.07b

N, normal rat+basal control diet; STZ, DM rats++basal control diet; STZ-M, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% mulberry leaf powder; STZ-G, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% green tea powder; STZ-MG, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% mixture of mulberry leaf and green tea powder. and green tea powder
Food efficiency ratio: FER (body weight gain/ food intake).
The results are mean±SE of 8 rats per each group.
The results NS: not significantly different among groups.
Values with different superscripts in the same column are significantly different (p<0.05) between groups by Tukey's test.