摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sugar breakdown enzyme inhibitor having excellent saccharide breakdown enzyme inhibiting activity and, even if ingested as food, safe for human body and causing no adverse effect, and to provide a food containing the sugar breakdown enzyme inhibitor, effectively suppressing hyperglycoplasmia after eating and, thereby, preventing and improving diseases such as diabetes, corpulence, hyperlipemia and the like. SOLUTION: This sugar breakdown enzyme inhibitor is characterized by containing mate leaf extract obtained by extracting mate leaves as an active component and the food containing the sugar breakdown enzyme inhibitor is provided. |