FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (10): 636-640.

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Review on Advancement of Hypoglycemic Functional Factors

 LIU  Mei-Yu,   Ren-Fa-Zheng   

  1. 1.Department of Food Science, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056006, China 2.College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Ministry of Education and Beijing City, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2006-10-15 Published:2011-11-16

Abstract:  Nowadays diabetes mellitus is one of severe diseases threatening human health. Thus it is becoming a focus in medical research to seek for new hypoglycemic functional factors. This article reviews the sorts of the functional factors, including natural products, minerals and vitamin. It explains the mechanism of factors on diabetes mellitus and puts forth a new prospect of developing functional food and medicine according to the animal and clinical experiments.

Key words:  , blood sugar; insulin; functional factors; diabetes mellitus;