A 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study of the Ethanol Extract from Eupatorium japonicum Thunb and Foeniculum vulgare in Rats

Table 1

Body weight, food consumption, and food conversion efficiency of rats fed with EFE for 90 days.

	EFE-1	EFE-2	EFE-3	Control
Day 0	^a
Day 4
Day 8
Day 12
Day 16
Day 20
Day 24
Day 28
Day 32
Day 36
Day 40
Day 44
Day 48
Day 52
Day 56
Day 60
Day 64
Day 68
Day 72
Day 76
Day 80
Day 84
Day 88
Day 90
Total food consumption^b
Average feed conversion efficiency (%)^c

^aBody weight means (), food consumed means (, values in parenthesis), and average food conversion efficiency [] of Sprague–Dawley rats () consuming different concentrations of EFE. ^bTotal food consumption: total food consumed since study initiation. ^cAverage feed conversion efficiency: total food consumption divided by total body weight gain. Values are significantly different () as compared with the corresponding control group.