Green tea extract decreases starch digestion and absorption from a test meal in humans: A randomized, placebo-controlled crossover study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lochocka, Klaudia ^a   Bajerska, Joanna ^b   Glapa, Aleksandra ^a   Fidler Witon, Ewa ^a   Nowak, Jan K ^a   Szczapa, Tomasz ^a   Grebowiec, Philip ^a   Lisowska, Aleksandra ^a   Walkowiak, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PLANT EXTRACT; STARCH; TEA;

ADULT; BODY MASS; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIGESTION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BREATH TESTS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIGESTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLANT EXTRACTS; STARCH; TEA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938337733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12015     Document Type: Article

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