Fermentation (Mar 2023)

Glucoregulatory Properties of Fermented Soybean Products

  • Songfeng Yu,
  • Wenjun Wang,
  • Shanshan Li,
  • Jiaheng Li,
  • Runan Zhao,
  • Donghong Liu,
  • Jianping Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation9030254
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
p. 254

Abstract

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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease, characterized by persistent hyperglycemia, the prevalence of which is on the rise worldwide. Fermented soybean products (FSP) are rich in diverse functional ingredients which have been shown to exhibit therapeutic properties in alleviating hyperglycemia. This review summarizes the hypoglycemic actions of FSP from the perspective of different target-related molecular signaling mechanisms in vitro, in vivo and clinical trials. FSP can ameliorate glucose metabolism disorder by functioning as carbohydrate digestive enzyme inhibitors, facilitating glucose transporter 4 translocation, accelerating muscular glucose utilization, inhibiting hepatic gluconeogenesis, ameliorating pancreatic dysfunction, relieving adipose tissue inflammation, and improving gut microbiota disorder. Sufficiently recognizing and exploiting the hypoglycemic activity of traditional fermented soybean foods could provide a new strategy in the development of the food fermentation industry.

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