FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2007, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (12): 469-471.

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Study on Effects of Ginger Oil on Weight Losing and Lipid Lowing of Nutritional Pimelosis Rats

 YANG  Zhi-Gang, ZHANG  Yan-Ping   

  1. Department of Biology and Food Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China
  • Online:2007-12-15 Published:2011-11-22

Abstract: The effects of ginger oil on weight losing and serum lipid lowing of the nutritional pimelosis rats was evaluated in the study. According to the assessment of weight-losing function of healthy food by Ministry of Health, forty newly-weaning male rats were feed with nutritive forage and made nutritional pimelosis model after 6 weeks. Then the rats were divided into one control group and four treatment groups. In treatment groups, rats were feed with different dosages of ginger oil for 4 weeks. The results showed that the treatment of ginger oil could significantly decrease body weight and fat tissue weight around the testicle and kidney of the rats. Moreover, the serum levels of total cholesterol and total triglyceride hyperlipemia rats were markedly decreased by ginger oil (p<0.05). Altogether, the results indicated that ginger oil has an effective function of losing weight and lowing lipid in obese rats.

Key words: ginger oil, rat, weight losing, lipid lowing