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C57BL\/6J mice were fed either a high-fat\/high-sucrose\/high-cholesterol (HFC) diet or a high-fat\/high-sucrose (HFS) diet. The former induces more severe liver injury than the latter model. In the first study, male C57BL\/6J mice were fed an HFC diet, or an HFC diet containing 0.015% or 0.03% (w\/w) FCX powder for 12 weeks to develop obesity-induced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). In the second study, mice were fed an HFS diet or an HFS diet containing 0.01% FCX powder for 8 weeks. FCX did not change body weight gain and serum lipid profiles compared to the HFC or HFS controls. No significant differences were present in liver triglyceride and total cholesterol, hepatic fat accumulation, and serum alanine aminotransferase levels between control and FCX-fed mice regardless of whether they were on an HFC or HFS diet. FCX did not mitigate mRNA abundance of genes involved in lipid synthesis, cholesterol metabolism, inflammation, and fibrosis in the liver and white adipose tissue, while hepatic fatty acid \u03b2-oxidation genes were significantly elevated by FCX in both HFC and HFS feeding studies. Additionally, in the soleus muscle, FCX supplementation significantly elevated genes that regulate mitochondrial biogenesis and fatty acid \u03b2-oxidation, concomitantly increasing mitochondrial DNA copy number, compared with HFC. 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