LIPID METABOLISM IMPROVING AGENT AND/OR CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM IMPROVING AGENT CONTAINING LACTIC ACID BACTERIA OR PROCESSED PRODUCT OF THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microorganism which improves both lipid metabolism and the carbohydrate metabolism.SOLUTION: There are provided bacterial cells selected from genus Lactobacillus and genus Bifidobacterium having dual agonist activity to a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) and a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR), a lipid metabolism improving agent and/or a carbohydrate metabolism improving agent containing a processed product of the bacterial cells or their mixtures as active ingredients, and food and drink and a pharmaceutical composition which contain the improving agent.