Nuisance or nutrient? Kudzu shows promise as a dietary supplement
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:48
in Health & Medicine
Kudzu, the nuisance vine that has overgrown almost 10 million acres in the southeastern United States, may sprout into a dietary supplement. Scientists in Alabama and Iowa are reporting the first evidence that root extracts from kudzu show promise as a dietary supplement for a high-risk condition - the metabolic syndrome - that affects almost 50 million people in the United States alone. Their study appears in the current issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication...