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SUBMITTER: Yoshizaki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4157231 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoshizaki Yumiko Y Kawasaki Chihiro C Cheng Kai-Chun KC Ushikai Miharu M Amitani Haruka H Asakawa Akihiro A Okutsu Kayu K Sameshima Yoshihiro Y Takamine Kazunori K Inui Akio A
PeerJ 20140826
Rice koji is considered a readily accessible functional food that may have health-promoting effects. We investigated whether white, yellow, and red koji have the anti-obesity effect in C57BL/6J mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD), which is a model for obesity. Mice were fed HFD containing 10% (w/w) of rice koji powder or steamed rice for 4 weeks. Weight gain, epididymal white adipose tissue, and total adipose tissue weight were significantly lower in all rice koji groups than in the HFD-rice group af ...[more]