Sour Cherry and Reduced Salivary Alpha-Amylase Activity

• Sour cherry extract inhibits human salivary α-amylase and growth of Streptococcus mutans (a pilot clinical study).

  • 2018
  • Clinical Trial · n = 70
  • Food & function 9(7)
  • • Judit Homoki
    • Gyöngyi Gyémánt
    • Péter Balogh
    • László Stündl
    • Piroska Bíró-Molnár
    • Melinda Paholcsek
    • Judit Váradi
    • Fenyvesi Ferenc
    • Barna Kelentey
    • Judit Nemes
    • Judit Remenyik

  • PubMed: 29978173
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8fo00064f

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Salivary Alpha-Amylase Activity

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Mixed

  Thereafter, sAA and S. mutans levels decreased earlier in the presence of sour cherry extract than those of control cases.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Chewing gum with sour cherry extract (dose not specified)