Some Interrelationships of Thiamine and Fat in the Nutrition of the Rat

Abstract
The effects of maintaining groups of young rats for 28 days on isocaloric food intakes (restricted) consisting of low-fat, 10% fat and 20% fat diets, supplemented with levels of thiamine ranging from 0 to 1,000 μg per day, were studied from the viewpoint of growth, cardiac thiamine, and amount and nature of carcass fat. The resultant data permitted the following conclusions: