Body composition and food intake.

<p>Changes in body weight and body composition, final percentage total body fat and lean, and cumulative food energy intake in diet-induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF) or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments. Within rows, means with different superscript letters are significantly different (ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc tests).</p

Plasma and liver lipid status.

<p>Lipid concentrations in plasma and liver of diet-induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF) or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments. Within rows, means with different superscript letters are significantly different (by Tukey’s post hoc tests).</p

Gut morphology.

<p>Final gut regional weight and lengths in diet-induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF) or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments. Within rows, means with different superscript letters are significantly different (by ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc tests).</p

Plasma hormones.

<p>Final plasma concentrations of (a) PYY, (b) total GLP-1, (c) leptin, and (d) insulin in diet induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF), or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments (<i>n</i> = 16 per diet group). Within figures, values labelled with different letters are significantly different (<i>P</i><0.001).</p

Food intake.

<p>Daily food energy intake by diet induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF), or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments (<i>n</i> = 16 per diet group). ANOVA revealed HF > LF > HF+P > LF+P (<i>P</i><0.001).</p

Body weight.

<p>Body weights of diet induced obese rats fed high fat diet (HF), high fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (HF+P), low fat diet (LF), or low fat diet with 10% w/w pectin (LF+P) for 4 weeks in two independently replicated experiments (<i>n</i> = 16 per diet group). ANOVA revealed HF > LF > HF+P, LF+P (<i>P</i><0.001).</p

Gut regional weights, lengths and histological measurements in rats fed control diet (C) or diet containing 3, 7 or 10% pectin (P) for 8 days or 28 days.

<p>Values are means ± s.e.m. (<i>n</i> = 8/group). Within rows and cohorts, means with different superscript letters are significantly different, P<0.05. <i>r</i>, correlation with %P (Pearson correlation coefficient; <i>n</i> = 32/cohort);</p><p>*** <i>P</i><0.001,</p><p>* <i>P</i><0.05.</p><p>Gut regional weights, lengths and histological measurements in rats fed control diet (C) or diet containing 3, 7 or 10% pectin (P) for 8 days or 28 days.</p

Gut morphology¹.

<p>Gut morphology<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0155871#t004fn001" target="_blank">¹</a>.</p

Correlations.

<p>Correlations.</p

Experimental diets¹.

<p>Experimental diets<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0155871#t001fn001" target="_blank">¹</a>.</p