Pomegranate and Reduced Insulin Levels

• Lack of Efficacy of Pomegranate Supplementation on Insulin Resistance and Sensitivity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

  • 2024-11-05
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 673
  • Phytotherapy research : PTR 39(1)
  • • Shao Yin
    • Fengya Zhu
    • Qian Zhou
    • Miao Chen
    • Xia Wang
    • Qiu Chen

  • PubMed: 39499092
  • DOI: 10.1002/ptr.8362

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Insulin Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  pomegranate extract had no significant impact on improving HOMA-IR levels in participants (WMD = -0.03, 95%CI: -0.37 to 0.31, and p = 0.851) and FI (WMD = -0.03, 95%CI: -0.42 to 0.36, and p = 0.862)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  varied (pomegranate juice, pomegranate seed oil capsules, pomegranate/pomegranate peel extract capsules, pomegranate peel-added bread)