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标题：The Potential Health Benefits of Noni Juice: A Review of Human Intervention Studies
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作者：Brett J. West ; Shixin Deng ; Fumiyuki Isami 等
期刊名称：Foods
电子版ISSN：2304-8158
出版年度：2018
卷号：7
期号：4
页码：58
DOI：10.3390/foods7040058
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Noni juice is a globally popular health beverage originating in the tropics. Traditional Tahitian healers believe the noni plant to be useful for a wide range of maladies, and noni juice consumers throughout the world have similar perceptions. Nevertheless, human clinical trials are necessary for a precise understanding of what the health benefits of noni juice are. A review of published human intervention studies suggests that noni juice may provide protection against tobacco smoke-induced DNA damage, blood lipid and homocysteine elevation as well as systemic inflammation. Human intervention studies also indicate that noni juice may improve joint health, increase physical endurance, increase immune activity, inhibit glycation of proteins, aid weight management, help maintain bone health in women, help maintain normal blood pressure, and improve gum health. Further, these studies point to notable antioxidant activity in noni juice, more so than other fruit juices which served as trial placebos. It is this antioxidant effect and its interaction with the immune system and inflammation pathways that may account for many of the observed health benefits of noni juice. However, the existing evidence does have some limitations as far as its general application to noni juice products; all the peer-reviewed human interventions studies to date have involved only one source of French Polynesian noni juice. Geographical factors and variations in processing methods are known to produce commercial noni juice products with divergent phytochemical and nutrient compositions. Therefore, other sources of noni products may have different toxicological and pharmacological profiles.
关键词：noni juice; Morinda citrifolia ; clinical trial; antioxidant; immune system; inflammation noni juice ; Morinda citrifolia ; clinical trial ; antioxidant ; immune system ; inflammation