Bromelain and Reduced Mucosal Dryness

• Supplementation Containing Bromelain on the Side Effects of Oncological Treatment: Systematic Review.

  • 2025-05-15
  • Systematic Review
  • Journal of medicinal food 28(6)
  • • Irislene Costa Pereira
    • Raquel Barros Passos
    • Camila de Meneses Caetano Viana
    • Isabele Frazão Mascarenhas
    • Glauto Tuquarre de Melo Nascimento
    • Felipe Cavalcanti Carneiro da Silva
    • João Marcelo de Castro E Sousa
    • Francisco Leonardo Torres-Leal

  • PubMed: 40372963
  • DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2023.0027

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Mucosal Dryness

  • High evidence

  supplementation was able to reduce side effects of adjuvant hormone therapy and chemotherapy, such as mucosal dryness, arthralgia, and peripheral neuropathy induced by chemotherapy.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes