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JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AND VITAMINOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 90-93Publisher
CENTER ACADEMIC PUBL JAPAN
DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.53.90
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anthocyanin; blood pressure; hypertension; administration with diet
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Anthocyanins have beneficial effects such as free radical scavenging activity. We investigated the effects of continuous administration of colors from purple corn (PCC), purple sweet potato (PSC) and red radish (RRC) to spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). These are rich in anthocyanins. Animals were fed with diets containing PCC, PSC or RRC (I mass% of diets) for 15 wk. While the body weight and the daily food intake of administered rats were not different from those of the non-administered control rats through the experimental period, the blood pressure and the heart rate of SHR administered each color decreased as compared to the control group from the early stage of administration. These results suggest that plant-derived colors containing anthocyanins have anti-hypertensive effects on hypertensive animals.
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