| 摘要 |
<p>Preventives/remedies for diabetes originating in a fungus which is a natural material, having a high safety, a low cost and stable qualities and exhibiting effects of inhibiting an increase in blood glucose level and improving glucose tolerance in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes; and functional foods containing these preventives/remedies for diabetes which have effects of preventing and ameliorating diabetes. The preventives/remedies for diabetes having the effects of inhibiting an increase in blood glucose level and improving glucose tolerance are prepared by using, as the active ingredient, processed fruit body of a fungus belonging to the family Auriscalpiaceae, for example, fruit body of Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii having been cultured in a mushroom bed. Further, functional foods having an antitumor effect are prepared by adding these preventives/remedies for diabetes to various foods. The effect of inhibiting an increase in blood glucose level can be confirmed by measuring the glucose level in blood after fasting for 16 to 20 hours, while the effect of improving glucose tolerance can be confirmed by carrying out a glucose-load test.</p> |
