Author(s)

Jingyi Xu, Mengze Du, Xiaomei Li, Xiao Du, Chunlei He, Pinwu Li

Corresponding Author

Jingyi Xu

ABSTRACT

The anti-obesity effects of Sichuan brick tea on rats were investigated for the first time. The results showed that compared with the obese control group, Sichuan Brick tea could significantly reduce the obesity indicators, including the body weight of obese rat, fat coefficient, the ratio of live and body weight, the discharge amount of the crude fat in stool with dose-dependent relationship. Studies showed that Sichuan brick tea had weight loss, and the high doses of brick had optimal anti-obesity effect.

KEYWORDS

Sichuan brick tea, dark tea, anti-obesity, rat