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. 2016 Jul 21;8(7):436. doi: 10.3390/nu8070436

Table 2.

Effects of yacon consumption on diabetes.

Yacon Source	Research, Subject Randomized, Dose and Duration	Health Properties	References
Yacon flour	Rats (Wistar)	Increase insulin-positive pancreatic cell	Habib et al. [54]
Yacon flour	Dose: Yacon flour (340 mg FOS/kg/day) for 90 days	Increase insulin-positive pancreatic cell	Habib et al. [54]
Dried extract of yacon root	Rats (Zucker fa/fa)	Improve insulin sensitivity in the insulin-resistant state	Satoh et al. [55]
Dried extract of yacon root	Dose: 6.5% yacon for 5 weeks	Improve insulin sensitivity in the insulin-resistant state	Satoh et al. [55]
Dried extract of yacon root	Elderly man and woman	Decrease in serum glucose levels	Scheid et al. [56]
Dried extract of yacon root	Dose: Yacon powder (7.4 g of FOS) for 9 weeks	Decrease in serum glucose levels	Scheid et al. [56]
Yacon syrup	Obese and slightly dyslipidemic pre-menopausal women	Improve insulin-resistance state	Genta et al. [57]
Yacon syrup	Dose: Yacon syrup (0.29 g and 0.14 g FOS/kg/day), for 120 days	Improve insulin-resistance state	Genta et al. [57]