A Culinary Dose of Herbs and Spices Improves 24-Hour Blood Pressure in Adults at Risk for Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Randomized Crossover Controlled-Feeding Study

摘要

Intake of a herb/spice containing meal attenuates post-prandial lipemia, hyperglycemia and oxidative stress, and improves endothelial function. No randomized controlled trials have examined the cardiometabolic effects of longer-term intake of mixed herbs and spices. We aimed to assess the effect of an average American diet containing herbs and spices at 0.5 (Low Spice Diet; LSD), 3.3 (Moderate Spice Diet; MSD) and 6.6 (High Spice Diet; HSD) g/day/2100 kcal on lipids/lipoproteins as well as other risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases in at-risk adults.