THE EFFECT OF PIGMENTED RICE ON HEMOGLOBIN REGENERATION IN ANEMIC RATS / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

Hemoglobin (Hb) regeneration method in rats was used to prove the effect of pigmented rice on iron dificiency anemia (IDA). IDA was induced in 90 Wistar male weaning rats by feeding low iron diet for 25 days. Fifty of the anemic rats were divided into 5 groups; low iron, nonpigmented milled rice, pigmented milled rice, pigmented semibrown rice and control (compared only with the pigmented milled rice group). The result of 30 days experiment showed that pigmented rice was superior to nonpigmented rice in Hb regeneration and the semibrown was superior to the milled. Pigmented rice, especially the semibrown, was found to possess more iron than nonpigmented rice. There was a close correlation between the degree of Hb regeneration and the quantity of iron taken by rats or the quantity of iron in diets. These evidences suggested that pigmented rice had certain prophylactic and curing effect against IDA and this was probably due to its higher iron content.