Lactobacillus plantarum DR7 and Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels

• Effects of skim milk fermented with Lactobacillus plantarum WW on the constitutions of rats fed a high-fat diet.

  • 2020-06
  • RCT
  • Journal of Dairy Science 103(6)
  • • Yang Li
    • Junrui Wu
    • Chengxu Cao
    • Xinyuan Zhu
    • Xueting Sun
    • R. Wu

  • PubMed: 32278555
  • DOI: 10.3168/jds.2019-17560

  21 Insights on

  • Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Animal Study

  Our study supports the hypothesis that the WW strain of L. plantarum could be a potential probiotic to be used in functional foods to alter lipid metabolism and reduce cholesterol levels.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

• Qualification of tropical fruit-derived Lactobacillus plantarum strains as potential probiotics acting on blood glucose and total cholesterol levels in Wistar rats.

  • 2019-10
  • Clinical Trial
  • Food Research International 124
  • • W. K. A. da Costa
    • Larissa Ramalho Brandão
    • M. E. Martino
    • Estefânia F Garcia
    • A. F. Alves
    • E. L. de Souza
    • Jailane de Souza Aquino
    • M. Saarela
    • F. Leulier
    • H. Vidal
    • M. Magnani

  • PubMed: 31466629
  • DOI: 10.1016/J.FOODRES.2018.08.035

  13 Insights on

  • Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  Both strains were able to reduce (p ≤ .05) total cholesterol levels after 14 days of administration; after the wash-out period these levels remained reduced only in the group that received L. plantarum 201.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes