A PILOT STUDY: ACCEPTANCE AND CONSUMPTION OF DIFFERENT MACRONUTRIENT RAT FEED FORMULA BY SPRAGUE DAWLEY RATS

Experiments using different kinds of rat feed diet is being used in many researches. Many of the diets used in commercialized special rat feed relate mainly to western diets. We developed several formulas to mimic the diet of the local population of Malaysia. Our aim is to observe the acceptance and consumption of the Sprague Dawley rats to different rat feed formulas.  Eight Sprague Dawley rats were fed five different rat feed diets on different days for five days. Namely the five diets are normal rat chow, high sugar, high starch, high protein and high fat rat feed formula. The rat feeds were given ad libitum with tap water. The result was the rats accepted and consumed all types of different macronutrient formulated diets.