Effect of pu‐erh tea on body fat and lipid profiles in rats with diet‐induced obesity

Abstract

The antiobesity and antihyperlipidaemic effects of pu-erh tea in rats with high fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity were investigated. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into five groups and fed varying diets for an 8-week period: control diet, HFD, and HFD supplemented with low, moderate or high doses of pu-erh tea extract (0.5 g, 2 g and 4 g/kg BW/day, respectively). Pu-erh tea significantly reduced the total body weight and the weight of various adipose pads. Pu-erh tea administration also significantly lowered plasma total cholesterol, triglyceride concentrations and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels in rats with HFD-induced obesity, but did not affect high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels. Moreover, pu-erh tea significantly increased lipoprotein lipase, hepatic lipase and hormone-sensitive lipase activities in epididymal fat tissue in rats with HFD-induced obesity. Analysis of real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction results indicated that pu-erh tea significantly enhanced mRNA levels of hormone-sensitive lipase in rats with HFD-induced obesity. These results suggest that pu-erh tea attenuated visceral fat accumulation and improved hyperlipidemia in a rat model of HFD-induced obesity.

Oxidized tea polyphenols prevent lipid accumulation in liver and visceral white adipose tissue in rats

“…These results suggest that OTPs accelerated the metabolism of fatty acids in white adipose tissue. Previous studies have also found that consuming oolong tea (partially oxidized), black tea (full oxidized) and Pu-erh tea (oxidized and fermented) significantly decreased visceral fat levels without changing the body weight in mice [27,30]. These studies found that oolong tea, black tea and Puerh tea suppressed adiposity by activating AMPK.…”

“…Compared with the results of previous studies, the inconsistency observed here might have been caused by the lower dose of OTPs or the shorter treatment time in our study. Most of the previous associated studies treated animals with Pu-erh tea extract for 8-12 weeks [27,28,30]. However, in our study, the rats were fed a high-fat diet containing OTPs for approximately 6 weeks.…”

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