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Lee, Shin, Lee, Ku, and Choi: The Effect of Red Pepper (Capasicum Annum L.) on Growth, Calcium Absorption, Serum Vitamin A Content and Histology of Albino Rats
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Yonsei Medical Journal

Yonsei Medical Journal 1962; 3(1): 18-21.

Published online: 20 February 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.1962.3.1.18

The Effect of Red Pepper (Capasicum Annum L.) on Growth, Calcium Absorption, Serum Vitamin A Content and Histology of Albino Rats

Ki Yull Lee, Myoung Sook Shin, Yung Bin Lee, Cha Yun Ku**, Kum Duk Choi

Department of Biochemistry and Anatomy, Yonsei University Colleg of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

**Student research fellow from Graduate School of Suk Myung Women's University, Seoul, Korea.

Received 31 October 1962

Copyright © 1962 The Yonsei University College of Medicine

Abstract

Twenty-four ma1e a1bino rats were chosen at random and divided into two dietary groups: one for control (diet 1) and the other for an experimental diet (diet 2). Diet II consisted of the basal diet supplemented with red pepper powder in increasing amounts from 1.25%, 1.8% and 2.5% to 3.6%.
With a red pepper diet at the 2.5% level, there was a significantly lower efficiency of food utilization. (p=0.05) The apparent digestlbility of calcium with red pepper concentrations from 2.5 to 3.5% was about 13% greater than in tile control diet. Thus red pepper appears to affect the solubility of calcium in the diet. Serum β-Carotene and Vitamin A showed a tendency to increase slightly with a red pepper diet. No histological changes in the gastric mucosa cells were observed in rats fed a red pepper diet.
Further investigation is required to define the effects of red pepper in different species of animals.

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