FAS and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: When giving 0.05% SSC to NAFLD rats, hepatic FAS, ME and G6PDH activities tended to normal level, with a reduction of 41.2% (P < 0.01), 23.8% (P < 0.05) and 23.0% (P < 0.05) separately compared with OA rats (Figure 1).