What Is the Anthocyanins Health Benefit?

Anthocyanins are responsible for the colorful colors of plant leaves, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and grains. Anthocyanin Powder is a natural water-soluble pigment. Studies have shown that in addition to imparting bright color to plants, it also has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, chronic disease prevention and vision-improving effects. This has attracted widespread attention from the medical community and healthy functional food companies.

What Do Anthocyanins Do?

1. Anti-inflammatory

The anti-inflammatory effects of anthocyanins involve DNA scavenging, estrogen activity, lipid peroxidation, enzyme inhibitors, cytokine substances that regulate immune responses, etc. Some of the mechanisms are:

(1) Inhibit the mRNA expression levels of NF-κB, cyclooxygenase and various interleukins;

(2) Reduce the level of C-reactive protein and lipid peroxidation;

(3) Reduce NO production in mouse macrophages and inhibit iNOS mRNA level;

(4) Activated the expression of NF-κB and mitogen-activated kinase signaling pathway; (5) decreased the concentration of PGE 2.

2. Chronic Disease Management

Obesity and diabetes are hotspots that people are more concerned about. Population cohort and intervention studies have shown that anthocyanins can prevent and treat chronic diseases, mainly in reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The partial regulation mechanism of anthocyanins is as follows:

(1) Activating the AMPK pathway, increasing the utilization of blood glucose, and reducing the lipid content in serum;

(2) Up-regulation of ATP-binding domain transporter A1 in renal tubular cells to improve the accumulation of cholesterol in the renal tubules induced by high glucose;

(3) Down-regulation of retinol-binding protein-4 to inhibit blood sugar increase.

3. Protect Eyesight

A previous study conducted an eye fatigue test on 100 subjects, taking anthocyanin beverages (containing 160 mg anthocyanin) at a dose of 1 can/d for 30 consecutive days. The subjects were found through routine eye examination and visual inspection. Eye swelling, photophobia, blurred vision and other symptoms improved, and all biochemical indicators were normal before and after the experiment. Recently, Yao Jiayu and others reported that blueberry extract anthocyanins can also relieve visual fatigue, ocular surface diseases, diabetic cataract disease, glaucoma, etc.

4. Other

Regulates cognitive function and dopamine promotes inhibition of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Anthocyanin Powder can inhibit cell proliferation by blocking the ability of each stage by acting on cell cycle regulatory proteins.