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Nutrient Interactions and Toxicity

Fat and Protein from Olive Oil-Fried Sardines Interact to Normalize Serum Lipoproteins and Reduce Liver Lipids in Hypercholesterolemic Rats

Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología I (Nutrición), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain and ^* Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de León, León, Spain

²To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: frasan{at}farm.ucm.es.

Fatty fish consumption has been recommended due to its high (n-3) PUFA content. However, an effect of its protein on serum lipids and lipoproteins has also been suggested. The present study was designed to determine the acceptability of diets containing sardines fried in olive oil or the fat extracted from those sardines and the normalization of serum lipids and lipoproteins, the hepatic lipid profile, and the fatty acid composition of the liver of growing Wistar rats fed these diets after dietary loading of cholesterol. Hypercholesterolemia was induced for 3 wk by feeding rats a casein/olive oil/cholesterol diet. Rats were then switched for 2 wk to cholesterol-free purified diets containing casein plus olive oil (CO), sardines fried in olive oil (S) and casein plus the fat extracted from sardines fried in olive oil (CSF). The S and CSF diets were well accepted by the rats. Withdrawal of dietary cholesterol markedly reduced (P < 0.05) serum cholesterol level in all of the groups, but the S group had the greatest decrease and the CO group the smallest decrease. The S group had a more normal lipoprotein profile, in which HDL was the major lipid carrier, whereas rats of the CO group still had ß-VLDL particles. CSF-fed rats had an intermediate profile. Liver fat and total, free and esterified cholesterol levels were lower (P < 0,05) in the S group than in the other two groups. The S and CSF diets increased (P < 0.05) the (n-3) PUFA content in hepatic triacylglyceride, cholesterol ester and phospholipid fractions. The liver fatty acid profile of the S group was more normalized than those of the other two groups. These findings suggest that the inclusion in the diet of whole sardines fried in olive oil normalizes cholesterol metabolism in hypercholesterolemic rats more quickly than consumption of their extracted fat.

KEY WORDS: • liver lipids • olive oil-fried sardines • (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids • serum lipoproteins

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