TABLE 5.

The interpretation of Jadad score on Clinical trials of antidiabetic plants found in DRC.

Plant used	Used part/Preparation	Author and year	Randomization	Blinding	Withdrawals and dropouts	Total
Allium cepa	Fresh pods	Jafarpour-Sadegh et al. (2017)	2	2	1	5
Allium sativum	Pods	Ashraf et al. (2011)	1	2	0	3
Aloe vera	High molecular weight fractions	Yagi et al. (2009)	0	0	0	0
Balanites aegyptiaca	Fruits	Rashad et al. (2017)	2	2	1	5
Carica papaya	Fermented papaya	Raffaelli et al. (2015)	0	0	0	0
Elaeis guineensis	Standardized leaf extract	Kalman et al. (2013)	1	2	0	3
Laurus nobilis	Ground leaves	Khan et al. (2009)	1	0	0	1
Momordica charantia	Fruit powder	Kim et al. (2020)	1	1	1	3
Morinda cordifolia	Juice from fermented fruit puree	Algenstaedt et al. (2018)	0	0	0	0
Moringa oleifera	Leaf powder	Leone et al. (2018)	0	2	0	2
Rauvolfia-Citrus	Leaf powder	Campbell-Tofte et al. (2011)	1	2	1	4
Raphia gentiliana	Fruits	Mpiana et al. (2013) a	0	0	0	0
Salvia officinalis	Leave powder	Kianbakht and Dabaghian, (2013)	1	2	1	4
Terminalia chebula	Fruit aqueous extract	Pingali et al. (2020)	2	2	1	5
Trigonella foenum-graecum	Seed powder	Hadi et al. (2020)	2	1	1	4
Urtica dioica	Leaf extract	Kianbakht et al. (2013)	2	2	1	5
Vernonia amygdalina	Leaf juice	Okolie et al. (2008)	2	0	0	2
Zea mays	Maize starch	Sands et al. (2009)	1	0	0	1
Zingiber officinale	Rhizome powder	Shidfar et al. (2015)	1	2	0	3

^aOnly study carried out in DRC; Score ≥ 3(Good quality); Score < 3 (Poor quality).