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Zinc deficiency conditions food aversions in rats
D S Cannon1, I L Crawford, L E Carrell
1Dallas Veterans Administration Medical Center, TX 75216.
Physiology & Behavior
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Zinc (Zn) deficiency is shown to condition aversion to the Zn-deficient diet. After development of a Zn deficiency syndrome during which consumption of the deficient diet decreased, rats readily consumed a familiar Zn-normal diet. After Zn repletion, the previously deficient animals continued to avoid the Zn-deficient diet. These results would not be predicted by the competing hypothesis that Zn-deficiency is anorexigenic.