Fig. 2

Young rats glycemia after fasting. Young rats fed either control or VAS diets were tested for their fasting glycemia and glucose tolerance by glucose tolerance test A, D) Fasting glycemia (mg.dL⁻¹); B, C) Glycemia response to glucose tolerance test (mg.dL⁻¹); C, F) Glucose tolerance expressed as the AUC of the glucose tolerance test (mg.h.dL⁻¹), for females and males, respectively. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM for control rats (females n = 13; males n = 14; white symbols) and VAS diet-fed rats (females n = 12; males n = 12; black symbols). Asterisks indicate significant differences between the control and VAS groups: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.