ABSTRACTA 6‐month study was conducted to examine the effect of substituting dietary sucrose with an equivalent (50) amount of full‐fat, defatted and hemicellulose‐free wheat bran on tissue lipids of young rats fed a lipogenic diet. While the removal of hemicellulose from bran greatly increased its potential to prevent elevation of serum cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid levels, the process of defatting of bran affected such a potential of bran to the contrary. Prevention of increase in the levels of lipids in liver and adipose tissues was, however, more pronounced in rats fed full‐fat rather than hemicellulose‐free bran. An emergence of alpha‐lipoprotein fraction and a decrease in prebetafraction was observed in the serum of br
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