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http://dx.doi.org/10.9799/ksfan.2013.26.4.737

Variation Patterns of the Blood Lipid Levels on the Sprague-Dawley-Rats Fed with Kochujang Extracts  

Woo, Yong-Ku (Dept. of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Korea Bio-Polytechnics)
Kim, Tae-Hyo (Dept. of Bio-Food Analysis, Korea Bio-Polytechnics)
Koh, Jong-Ho (Dept. of Bio-Food Analysis, Korea Bio-Polytechnics)
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The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition / v.26, no.4, 2013 , pp. 737-744 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study was investigated to evaluate on the health improving effect of Kochujang (Fermented Korean hot pepper paste), which was famous as Korean traditional healthy food among foreigners as it was served together with Bibimbap. For comparison, observation was made on the experimental animals (Sprague-Dawley rat) as breeding during 5 weeks, which were divided three groups as into the control groups (N-group) fed with normal feed only and high cholesterol feed only (H-group) and the K-group with combined diet of normal feed and Kochujang extracts (Water soluble complex materials). The most outstanding result was found as the definite fatty liver lesions found from all (100%) of the rats of the H-group at the abdominal opening examination. On the other hand, there was any finding on fatty liver lesions in the N-group as well as the K-group. Therefore, it was more than enough to identify the hypolipidemic effect by visual finding only. Furthermore, from the results of blood plasma analysis from SD-rats fed with Kochujang extract (K-group), more prominent differential findings were found, the value of HDL-cholesterol, which was good for preventing the arteriosclerosis, was more or less higher than that of H-groups. But the level of LDL-cholesterol, which was one of the hazardous agents of hyperlipidemia and arteriosclerosis, was more significantly reduced to the level even lower than that of N-group, based on the statistical analysis, in especial. According to the present results, we could find that the unidentified Korean traditional Kochujang-derived complex components had expressed both the positive health improving effects and hypolipidemic effects on the SD-rat.
Keywords
Kochujang; SD-rat; hypolipidemic effect; physiological activity; HDL-cholesterol;
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