Chili Pepper and Reduced Body Fat Mass

• Bioactive Properties, Bioavailability Profiles, and Clinical Evidence of the Potential Benefits of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) and Red Pepper (Capsicum annum) against Diverse Metabolic Complications.

  • 2023-09-11
  • Review
  • Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 28(18)
  • • Phiwayinkosi V Dludla
    • Ilenia Cirilli
    • Fabio Marcheggiani
    • Sonia Silvestri
    • Patrick Orlando
    • Ndivhuwo Muvhulawa
    • Marakiya T Moetlediwa
    • Bongani B Nkambule
    • Sithandiwe E Mazibuko-Mbeje
    • Nokulunga Hlengwa
    • Sidney Hanser
    • Duduzile Ndwandwe
    • Jeanine L Marnewick
    • Albertus K Basson
    • Luca Tiano

  • PubMed: 37764345
  • DOI: 10.3390/molecules28186569

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Body Fat Mass

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  red pepper (Capsicum annum), together with its active ingredient, capsaicin, could promote energy expenditure, including limiting energy intake, which is likely to contribute to reduced fat mass in overweight and obese individuals.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate