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We investigated whether propolis supplementation from preconception through lactation modified metabolic and hepatic outcomes in offspring exposed to a maternal cafeteria diet. Methods: Thirty-two Wistar rat dams received a control diet (CON), cafeteria diet (CAF), or either diet with propolis in drinking water (CONP and CAFP; target exposure, 200 mg\/kg\/day). One male and one female per litter (n = 8\/sex\/group) received standard chow after weaning. This design isolated maternal exposure because offspring received no propolis after weaning. At 18 weeks, metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers, liver histopathology, and hepatic lipid-metabolism gene expression were evaluated using groupwise tests and two-way ANOVA. Results: Final body weights were comparable across groups. In males, maternal diet affected glucose (p = 0.034) and HOMA-IR (p = 0.023), with a diet \u00d7 propolis interaction for glucose (p = 0.042). CAF males had higher TNF-\u03b1 than CAFP and CONP males. In females, diet \u00d7 propolis interactions were detected for insulin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and leptin (all p \u2264 0.049); CAF females had higher triglycerides than CON and CAFP females. Hydropic degeneration was greater in CAF dams than all other groups and in CAF than CONP male offspring; female histopathology did not differ. Male hepatic gene expression did not differ among groups, whereas female PPAR-\u03b2 and FADS2 showed propolis main effects (p = 0.046 and p = 0.009, respectively). Conclusions: Maternal cafeteria-diet exposure was associated with persistent metabolic and hepatic alterations despite comparable offspring body weights, with different response patterns observed in the separate male and female analyses. Maternal propolis supplementation selectively modified some inflammatory, lipid-related, and histopathological outcomes; however, these effects were heterogeneous and did not consistently normalize the cafeteria-associated phenotype. Overall, the findings support partial, endpoint-specific, and context-dependent modulation rather than uniform metabolic or hepatic protection.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu18172881","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,2]],"date-time":"2026-09-02T10:57:23Z","timestamp":1788346643000},"page":"2881","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Beyond Body Weight: Maternal Propolis Selectively Modulates Metabolic and Hepatic Outcomes in Male and Female Rat Offspring Exposed to a Maternal Cafeteria Diet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6272-8791","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kadriye Elif","family":"\u0130mre","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu 37150, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6301-6358","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Asl\u0131","family":"Akyol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hacettepe University, Ankara 06100, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"funding-acquisition","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"GBD 2021 Adult BMI Collaborators (2025). 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