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An Ilex latifolia‐containing compound tea regulates glucose–lipid metabolism and modulates gut microbiota in high‐fat diet‐fed mice

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Title: An Ilex latifolia‐containing compound tea regulates glucose–lipid metabolism and modulates gut microbiota in high‐fat diet‐fed mice
Authors: Qiurong Xu, Xianyu Cheng, Chi Wen, Xiaoran Wu, Mengke Ye, Mengyao Li, Sha Liu, Lixin Wen, Zhonghua Liu, Ji Wang
Source: Food Frontiers, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 802-819 (2024)
Subject Terms: functional tea, Ilex latifolia, Kuding Tea, nonalcoholic fatty liver, obesity, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641, Food processing and manufacture, TP368-456
Publisher Information: Wiley, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Nutrition. Foods and food supply
LCC:Food processing and manufacture
Description: Abstract Kuding Tea (Ilex latifolia) is a bitter‐tasting herbal tea that was used for the treatment of symptoms related with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. However, Kuding Tea is also difficultly accepted by people in daily life because of its poor palatability. In this study, Kuding Tea, green tea (GT) (Camellia sinensis L.), and Luohan (Siraitia grosvenorii) fruits were formulated into a compound Kuding Tea (CKT) to improve the taste and health benefits of this beverage. High‐fat diet‐fed male C57BL/6J mice were used as animal models to explore the effects of CKT (6 or 12 mg/mL, water ad libitum) on body weight, food intake, liver function, blood glucose and lipids, and gene expression. L02 and 3T3‐L1 cells were used to further demonstrate the effects of CKT on fat accumulation and hepatic lipid deposition. Our results suggest that CKT can regulate glucose and lipid metabolism by decreasing body weight, reducing white adipose deposition, improving glucose tolerance, increasing the expression of brown adipose genes, and reducing fat accumulation in the liver, and CKT inhibited fat accumulation better than GT. In addition, a low dose (6 mg/mL) of CKT reduced the abundance of Desulfovibrio bacteria, positively associated with obesity, and increased that of norank_f__Muribaculaceae, Lachnospiraceae_NK4A136_group, and Alloprevotella, which are beneficial to glucose and lipid metabolism. This study suggests that CKT not only has a better palatability but also has potential preventive effects on high‐fat diet‐induced glucose–lipid metabolic diseases.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2643-8429
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2643-8429
DOI: 10.1002/fft2.362
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/a81f0e611cfb486aa0176b98fa4ced3e
Accession Number: edsdoj.81f0e611cfb486aa0176b98fa4ced3e
ISSN: 26438429
DOI: 10.1002/fft2.362
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals