摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a specific healthy food product effective for preventing diabetes or a nutritive functional food product having an effect on health maintenance, by using a zinc (II) complex which is highly safe, even when administered for a long period, and has an α-glucosidase inhibitory effect as a substitute for zinc salts which are difficult to pass through a biomembrane and hardly absorbed by an organism, and to obtain a medicament by using the complex. <P>SOLUTION: The specific healthy food product effective for preventing the diabetes or the nutritive functional food product having the effect on the health maintenance is given by using the zinc (II) complex which is composed of ligands comprising compounds of amino acids, picolinic acids, vitamins, maltols, carboxylic acids, oligopeptides, and their derivatives, and a zinc source, and further has the α-glucosidase inhibitory effect. The medicament is obtained by using the complex. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |