What is it about?
The lyophilized water-extractable yam tuber showed antihypertensive activities in SHR and human trial.
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Why is it important?
Yam tuber proteins may be developed as functional food for blood pressure reguations.
Perspectives
Dried slices of yam tuber are freqently used as Chinese herbal medicine, and fresh tuber is also a staple food in West Africa, Southern Asia, and the Caribbean. Yam tuber proteins may be developed as functional food for blood pressure reguations.
Professor Wen-Chi Hou
Taipei Medical University
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This page is a summary of: Feeding trial of instant food containing lyophilised yam powder in hypertensive subjects, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, January 2009, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3420.
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