Lipid-lowering agents diabetes

Uses Thickener, stabilizer in foods, cheeses, frozen desserts lipid- and cholesterol lowering agent glucose- and insulin-lowering agent for diabetes care... 

The efficacy of capsaicin as a hypocholesterolemic agent has also been investigated in animals fed cholesterol in their diets. Sambaiah and Satyanarayana [104] have reported that the serum cholesterol levels in rats on a 1 % cholesterol -i- 5 % red pepper diet were lower than those not fed with red pepper. Liver cholesterol was lower in the red pepper- as well as capsaicin (an equivalent level of 15 mg%)-fed groups. Fecal excretion of free cholesterol and of bUe acids was enhanced in animals fed the spice and capsaicin. The anti-hypercholesterolemic efficacy of dietary capsaicin has been evidenced in rats fed an atherogenic high-cholesterol diet, and such an influence also resulted in countering of the changes in membrane lipid profile in the erythrocytes [105]. In streptozotocin-induced diabetic situation however, dietary capsaicin did not show any beneficial hypolipidemic property [106]. 

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