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Vaccinium macrocarpon increases plasma nitrite concentration

raisesLimited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Serum nitrite was significantly higher at 2 hours (p < 0.05) and tended to be higher at 4 hours (p < 0.1) in the cranberry vs. control phase.”
Quoted verbatim from Cranberries improve postprandial glucose excursions in type 2 diabetes.
This finding among the 14 findings on its endpoint

Vaccinium macrocarpon

Plasma nitrite concentration

raises

Who
Obese adults with type 2 diabetes on oral hypoglycemic agents (not insulin), randomized crossover; postprandial response after a single high-fat breakfast, significant at the 2 hour timepoint and only a trend at 4 hours
Dose studied
40 g dried reduced-calorie cranberries added to a single high-fat breakfast; control meal had 80 g banana to match calories and carbohydrate; two study days one week apart

Limited evidencePMID 28748974 · 2017

02 · The study

Study
crossover
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limitedthis finding
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Food & function
What else it reported1 finding · 0 compounds · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6Y1CFTGQAY56GK3FPSARDGX