Production of Foxtail-Millet-Based Composite Antioxidant Nutritive Flour Using Coarse Grains and Fruit Flour

Table 5

Effect of nutritive flour on body weight gain and tissue index ( per group).

Group	Body weight gain (g)	Liver index (%)	Heart index (%)	Kidney index (%)
AC	^a	^a	^a	^a
PC	^b	^a	^a	^a
NC	^a	^a	^a	^a
This composite flour	^b	^a	^a	^a
Commercial flour	^b	^a	^a	^a

AC: the naive group was provided with a normal chow diet; PC: the positive control group was provided with a diet made of a mixture of normal chow and vitamin C, with a vitamin C content of 0.2 g/kg; NC: the negative control group was provided with a diet made of a mixture of normal chow and unfermented foxtail millet, with a millet content of 400 g/kg. This composite flour group was provided with a diet made of a mixture of normal chow and composite foxtail-millet-based antioxidant nutritive flour, with a composite flour content of 400 g/kg. The commercial flour group was provided with a diet made of a mixture of normal chow and commercial grain nutritive flour, with a flour content of 400 g/kg. All diets were processed by SPE Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Results are presented as means () ± standard deviations. Values carrying different letters in the same column are significantly different ().