{"id":26479,"date":"2019-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2019-10-05T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:59:17","slug":"mexican-students-create-sorbet-that-controls-glucose-in-diabetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/mexican-students-create-sorbet-that-controls-glucose-in-diabetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican students create sorbet that controls glucose in diabetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nieve-control-glucosa-estudiantes-mexicanos-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nieve-control-glucosa-estudiantes-mexicanos-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nieve-control-glucosa-estudiantes-mexicanos-1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nieve-control-glucosa-estudiantes-mexicanos-1-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>A group of Mexican students developed a sorbet that controls and slows the absorption of blood glucose, particularly beneficial for those patients who have type II diabetes mellitus<\/strong>. &nbsp;The sorbet <strong>contains gum from flamboyant tree<\/strong>, which according to the literature has <strong>positive effects in delaying the absorption of capillary blood glucose<\/strong>. The <strong>project won the 1st place at the 10th National Research Congress of the Universidad del Valle de M\u00e9xico (UVM)<\/strong>, held at Puebla Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Besides its health benefits, students Norman Verdi and Jonatan Vel\u00e1squez sought a well-accepted product, so <strong>they performed tasting and sensory tests in 83 volunteers<\/strong>. It had an <strong>acceptance of almost 79%, there were no comments that indicated that the flavor or texture of the flamboyan gum was noticed<\/strong>. The only comments were that the sorbet lacked a bit of sweetness, and that it could have some other added flavors to it, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers <strong>tested 12 individuals with glucometers<\/strong>. The participants were tested first on an empty stomach (they were given a 100 gram portion of the sorbet). Then, they were tested again after 15, 30, 45, 60, 120 and 180 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who consumed the sorbet with added flamboyan gum had a significant glucose control; in comparison, those who consume the sorbet without the gum presented glucose peaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>Agencia ID<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Mexican students developed a sorbet that controls and slows the absorption of blood glucose, particularly beneficial for those patients who have type II diabetes mellitus. &nbsp;The sorbet contains gum from flamboyant tree, which according to the literature has positive effects in delaying the absorption of capillary blood glucose. The project won the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-26479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26504,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions\/26504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}