White Mulberry and Reduced Postprandial Blood Glucose Level

• Mulberry leaf extract reduces the glycemic indexes of four common dietary carbohydrates.

  • 2018-08
  • RCT · n = 15
  • Medicine 97(34)
  • • Ruihua Wang
    • Yanfen Li
    • Wei Mu
    • Ziqiang Li
    • Jinxia Sun
    • Baohe Wang
    • Zhong Zhong
    • Xiuzhen Luo
    • Chen Xie
    • Yuhong Huang

  • PubMed: 30142838
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000011996

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Postprandial Blood Glucose Level

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  At 30 minutes, the change in blood glucose level was lower for sucrose+MLE, maltose+MLE, and maltodextrin+MLE than for glucose or glucose+MLE (P < .05).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No