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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
Drinking tea is recommended for promoting health due to its bioactive nutrients, such as catechins and caffeine. In Tokushima area, we have a unique traditional tea, named Awa tea, which are fermented with Lactobacillus pentosus and Lactobacillus plantarum. The present study was designed to investigate anti-obesity effects of the Awa tea and compare with those of non-fermented green tea. Obese male Wistar rats (19 weeks of age) were given by low energy diets containing 3% of Awa and green tea extracts, respectively, or without any tea extracts (control), for 4 weeks. Awa tea contained smaller amount of catechins than green tea, although they contained similar amounts of polyphenols. This finding indicates that there are distinct kinds of polyphenols from catechins. The diets containing Awa and green tea extracts further decreased whole body weight, fat tissue mass and plasma leptin level, compared with control diet. In addition, their diets increased the daily amount of lipid excreted to feces and total 24-h-energy consumption, compared with the control group. However, there is no significant difference in these anti-obesity effects between Awa tea and green tea. Our results indicate that Awa lactate-fermented tea as well as green tea similarly enhance the effect of diet restriction on obesity, at least in part, through the increase in fat energy consumption and the decrease in fat absorption in rats.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1349-6867
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
42-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Camellia sinensis, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Combined Modality Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Diet, Reducing, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Energy Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Fermentation, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Lactobacillus plantarum, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Leptin, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Lipid Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Plant Extracts, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:19262013-Tea
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Awa (Tokushima) lactate-fermented tea as well as green tea enhance the effect of diet restriction on obesity in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
the Graduate School at Shikoku University, Tokushima, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't