Putative antidiabetic herbal food ingredients: Nutra/functional properties, bioavailability and effect on metabolic pathways

Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Trends in Food Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Isra Ismail IID, Satish Kumar, Swati Shukla, Vikas Kumar, Rakesh SharmaAbstractThe utilization of herbal medicines for the management of diseases has provided admirable results. Plant extracts are rich in like polyphenols, alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, and terpenoids having specific health benefits. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a non-communicable disease with a worldwide occurrence, characterized by persistent hyperglycemic conditions. Several oral hypoglycemic drugs viz. sulfonylureas, biguanides, α-glucosidase inhibitors, and non-sulfonylureas secretagogues are common medical recommendations for controlling diabetes. Consumption of oral hypoglycemic drugs demonstrate prominent side effects and to date, no permanent effective remedy for the complete recovery of DM is available. Until effective medication procedures are established; complementary and alternative medicines must be utilized to reduce the disease incidence. WHO has put herbal medicines on their priority list to treat various illnesses as they have lesser side effects, ease of access, affordability and low cost. Their administration can impart comparative functionality like medicine, if extracted in pure forms. Herbal antidiabetic formulations like dia-care, diabecure, syndrex, quath, churna, arth, vati etc are commercially available in the market. Identification of particular bioactive compound, minimum eff...
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - Category: Food Science Source Type: research