| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hyperlipemia-improving agent, and to provide a health food containing the agent. SOLUTION: This hyperlipemia-improving agent is obtained by using pine bark extract. The preferable pine bark extract contains >=20 wt.% OPC (oligomeric proanthocyanidin) and >=5.0 wt.% catechin. The food containing the pine bark extract and ascorbic acid or its salt has the excellent hyperlipemia-improving effect, decreases total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, neutral fat and phospholipid in blood and, at the same time, increases HDL- cholesterol in blood. |
