Sunflower and Reduced Blood Pressure

• Daily consumption of γ-oryzanol-fortified canola oil, compared with unfortified canola and sunflower oils, resulted in a better improvement of certain cardiometabolic biomarkers of adult subjects with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

  • 2023-10-10
  • RCT
  • European journal of medical research 28(1)
  • • Bahareh Nikooyeh
    • Azizollaah Zargaraan
    • Samira Ebrahimof
    • Ali Kalayi
    • Maliheh Zahedirad
    • Hootan Yazdani
    • Marjan Rismanchi
    • Taher Karami
    • Marzieh Khazraei
    • Ali Jafarpour
    • Tirang R Neyestani

  • PubMed: 37817285
  • DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01409-8

  10 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  accompanied by a significant reduction of blood pressure just in Group 1

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  not specified

• A randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study on acceptability, safety and efficacy of oral administration of sacha inchi oil (Plukenetia volubilis L.) in adult human subjects.

  • 2014-03
  • RCT
  • Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 65
  • • Gustavo F Gonzales
    • Carla Gonzales

  • PubMed: 24389453
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2013.12.039

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Serum total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels and arterial blood pressure were lowered with both oils (P<0.05).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  10 or 15 ml daily