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Plant foods in the management of Diabetes mellitus: Vegetables as potential hypoglycaemic agents.
Srinivasan, K. and Kalpana, Platel (1997) Plant foods in the management of Diabetes mellitus: Vegetables as potential hypoglycaemic agents. Nahrung, 41 (2). pp. 68-74.
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Abstract
treatment of diabetes mellitus. A few vegetables that are commonly consumed in India have been claimed to possess antidiabetic potency. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest to screen such plant food materials, for a possible beneficial use. Considerable amount of work has been carried out in this regard with bitter gourd (Momordicu charunria) and ivy gourd (Coccinia indica) both in experimental animals and human diabetic subjects. Majority of these studies have documented the beneficial effect of the fruit of bitter gourd and leaf of ivy gourd when administered orally as a single dose. The hypoglycaemic influence is claimed to be mediated through an insulin secretagogue effect or through an influence on enzymes involved in glucose metabolism. The limited number of studies on other vegetables such as cabbage (Brussicu oleruciu), green leafy vegetables, beans and tubers have shown the beneficial hypoglycaemic influence in both experimental animals and humans. There is scope for more extensive research in this area, especially to examine the long term beneficial effect of dietary vegetables, to identify the active principle, and to understand the mechanism of action, which is at present unclear. Since diet forms the mainstay in the management of diabetes mellitus, there is scope for exploiting the antidiabetic potency of vegetables to the maximum extent. Such plant food adjuncts possessing hypoglycaemic activity appear to hold promise as potential antidiabetic agents.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | hypoglycaemic activity, antidiabetic agents, Vegetables, bitter gourd, ivy gourd, diabetes mellitus |
| Subjects: | 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 10 Plants 600 Technology > 01 Medical sciences > 04 Diabetes Mellitus 600 Technology > 08 Food technology > 20 Plant Food |
| Divisions: | Dept. of Biochemistry |
| Depositing User: | Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2014 05:40 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2014 05:40 |
| URI: | http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/11618 |
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