A review on the progress of research on the chemical composition and pharmacological effects of lotus leaf.
- 2025-11
- Food chemistry 493
- Lipan Liu
- Jiale Han
- Hongyue Tian
- Zheng Liu
- Xiaozhen Wang
- Pengwang Wang
- Xia Li
- Wenyuan Gao
- PubMed: 40753702
- DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.145708
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The review summarizes the latest reports on the components, pharmacology and application of lotus leaf. It aims to study the active mechanism of lotus leaf in-depth and provide ideas for expanding its development and utilization value. Lotus leaf has a variety of active components, including flavonoids, polysaccharides, alkaloids, volatile oils, and so on. Under the joint action of these active components, lotus leaf has various pharmacological functions such as lipid-lowering and weight loss, blood sugar lowering, neurological protection, liver protection, and anti-cancer. This review also summarizes the potential molecular mechanisms by which lotus leaf exerts their pharmacological effects. Lotus leaf plays a role in the treatment and improvement of disease not through a single signaling pathway, but multiple pathways interact. Lotus leaf has a variety of biological activities, the production is large, hopeful in food, health products, and daily life products to expand the development and utilization of lotus leaf.