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Date: 17/07/07
 
What's the health secret in the mulberry?

Here's how Roman poet Horace described it more than 2,000 years ago: 'A man will pass his summers in health, who will finish his luncheon with black mulberries.


 

What's the health secret in the mulberry? 
 
Here's how Roman poet Horace described it more than 2,000 years ago: 'A man will pass his summers in health, who will finish his luncheon with black mulberries.' 
 
Interesting, although a little low on specifics. 
 
Let's fast-forward a couple of millennia to June 2007 when this statement appeared in the most recent issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry: 'Mulberry 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), a potent glucosidase inhibitor, has been hypothesized to be beneficial for the suppression of abnormally high blood glucose levels and thereby prevention of diabetes mellitus' 
 
Now we're getting somewhere! In a nutshell, animal studies have shown that a specific extract of mulberry (DNJ) helps control blood sugar spikes after high-glycemic meals. Could humans enjoy the same benefit? New research from Japan takes an important step in answering that question.  

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