Antidiabetic green leafy vegetables currently sold in Trincomalee District in Sri Lanka
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Shanmugalingam, V. , Vivekanandarajah Sathasivampillai, S. & Sebastian, P. R. (2021). Antidiabetic green leafy vegetables currently sold in Trincomalee District in Sri Lanka . Turkish Journal of Biodiversity , 4 (2) , 82-97 . DOI: 10.38059/biodiversity.994032Özet
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce insulin or cannot use insulin effectively. In
Sri Lanka, 1.2 million people among the age group of 20 to 79 were affected by diabetes in 2019.
Biomedicine antidiabetic medications cause common side effects such as bladder cancer,
dehydration, sinusitis, kidney illness, and urinary infections. Consumption of green leafy vegetables
minimizes the risk of developing diabetes. Hence, this work aims to identify and document the green
leafy vegetables currently sold in Trincomalee District in Sri Lanka by performing fieldwork visits to
the main markets and the surrounding green leafy vegetable kiosks, shops, superstores, and streets
from January 2019 to June 2021. The levels of antidiabetic scientific evidence available for the
identified green leafy vegetable species were assessed by recognizing the relevant published works in
the electronic databases Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, etc., until September 2021. A total of 99
green leafy vegetable species from 43 families were recognized. The majority of the green leafy
vegetables had in vivo (33%), followed by in vitro (16%) and clinical (9%) as scientific evidences. Also,
49 antidiabetic compounds were already isolated from the identified green leafy vegetables. This
study forms a foundation for further studies using the green leafy vegetable species in Trincomalee.