Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 6

Lipid Profile Improvement of Overweight-Obese Adults after High Antioxidant Tomato and Rice Bran Drinks Intervention

  • Author:
  • Lilik Kustiyah1,, Mira Dewi1, Evy Damayanthi1, Cesilia Meti Dwiriani1, Deni Alamsah1
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 551 to 555

1Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Lingkar Akademik Kampus IPB Darmaga, Bogor, 16680, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

*Corresponding Author: Lilik Kustiyah, Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Lingkar Akademik Kampus IPB Darmaga, Bogor, 16680, Jawa Barat, Indonesia, Email: lilik.kustiyah@gmail.com

Online published on 11 July, 2019.

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.

Keywords

Rice bran powder, rice bran oil emulsion, tomato juice, lipid profile, obese adults