Reducing blood lipid behavior in vivo based dark brick tea intake

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Table 1. Main biochemistry components in green tea and dark brick tea (%).

	Moisture	water extracts	tea polyphenols	amino acids	Soluble sugar	protein	Tea saponin	Theaflavin	Thearubigins	Theabrownin
1-year brick tea	10.58	20.82	8.01	1.52	4.99	1.95	4.65	0.08	2.27	3.48
10-year- brick tea	10.21	17.03	3.81	1.31	4.39	1.35	4.69	0.03	0.72	3.85
Green tea	6.05	41.76	26.25	4.98	5.49	2.67	3.93	—	—	—

Table 2. Effect of dark brick tea on body weights.

Group	n	Initial body weight (0d)	Final body weight (42f)	Significance
				P < .05	P < .01
NC	10	167.68 ± 6.92	290.16 ± 29.99	a	A
MC	10	167.10 ± 5.52	402.54 ± 30.18	f	D
XZK	10	167.80 ± 11.00	364.46 ± 23.76	e	C
DBTL	10	167.99 ± 5.59	345.66 ± 29.40	cde	BC
DBTM	10	167.41 ± 6.72	335.70 ± 16.97	bcd	BC
DBTH	10	166.24 ± 5.93	321.61 ± 31.75	bc	AB
10DBT	10	164.62 ± 5.35	318.51 ± 32.97	b	AB
GT	10	166.24 ± 6.56	360.36 ± 22.14	de	C

Figure 1. Effect of dark brick tea on serum and liver TC (a), TG (b) and HDL-C (c) level.

Figure 2. Effect of dark brick tea on serum and liver SOD (a), MDA (b) and GSH-PX (c) level.

Figure 3. Effect of dark brick tea on LPL, HL level of serum and liver.

Figure 4. Liver cells pathological observations of each group rats.