Anti-obesity composition comprising pine needle juice powder as effective component

Abstract

An anti-obesity composition comprises pine needle juice powder as an effective component. Because it is found that, not only a significantly higher extraction yield is obtained and a higher inhibitory activity on differentiation of an adipocyte is obtained when an extract is produced by using pine needle juice powder obtained by juicing process instead of using dry pine needle which has not been treated with any juicing process, but also both the body weight and weight of white adipose tissues are lowered and content of total lipid, total cholesterol, and triglyceride in blood is significantly lowered according to oral administration of the pine needle juice powder of the present invention to a model mouse under high fat diet, the pine needle juice powder of the present invention can be more advantageously used for a pharmaceutical composition or a functional health food for prophylaxis or treatment of obesity.

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