Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the consumption benefits of tomato juice-rice bran drink and tomato juice-rice bran oil emulsion drink on serum lipid profile picture of obese adults. This study used a pre-experimental design parallel two group pretest-posttest design involving 13 obese subjects each group for a total of 26 people. The main phase consisted of 4 weeks-intervention. Intervention was performed by giving two glasses of tomato drink and two drinks beverages of rice bran oil every day which is equivalent to 42 mg of lycopene and 57.2 mg of γ-oryzanol, respectively. The results showed that tomato juice, rice bran powdered and oil emulsion drink lowered the level of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol significantly (p<0.05), whereas triglyceride and HDL level were not changed.

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