Saffron and Improved Fasting Plasma Glucose

• Effect of saffron supplementation on the glycemic outcomes in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024-03-15
  • Systematic Review · n = 562
  • Frontiers in nutrition 11
  • • Jiaxin Liu
    • Yang Yang
    • Yun Qi

  • PubMed: 38559777
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1349006

  5 Insights on

  • Improved Fasting Plasma Glucose

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Compared with placebo, saffron supplementation significantly reduced FPG (WMD = -8.42 mg/dL; 95% CI: -13.37, -3.47; p = 0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  5 mg/day to 1 g/day