PERBEDAAN PENGARUH PEMBERIAN MINYAK KELAPA SAWIT (Palm Oil) DAN MINYAK KELAPA MURNI (Virgin Coconut Oil) TERHADAP PERBAIKAN PROFIL LEMAK (KOLESTEROL) PADA TIKUS DENGAN DIET ATEROGENIK

Abstract

Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a kind of coconut oil that most of its contained is Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA) and previous stdy showed that MCFA has an ability to prevent vascular desease. This experiment was done to  prove the ability of virgin coconut oil to reduce cholesteroltotal of rats with atherogenic diet compared with palm oil. This experiment was designed as true pre test post test experiment with control groups. The number of samples were 24 male wistar rats and they were separated into 4 treatment groups in  which each of them has 2 diet sections. The First section was done within 8 weeks, group A got normal diet, group B, Cand D got atherogenic diet with lard, after this section finished all of the groups got cholesterol pre test level. The next 4 weeks, in the second section treatment diet, group A got normal diet, group B got atherogenic diet with lard, group C gotatherogenic diet with palm oil and group D got atherogenic diet with virgin coconut oil, after the second section was over rat cholesterol levels were measured by enzymatic photometric test base on “CHO-PAPâ€. The results from One Way Anova which was continued to Tukey test showed that group B,C and D were homogenous, but they were different significantly againts group A on pre test with p(0.001) < 0.05.