Functional food ingredients for control of gestational diabetes mellitus: a review

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is highly prevalent worldwide, with an estimated 10-15% percent of pregnancies affected. Increasing evidence indicates that functional food ingredients (FFIs) may help relieve GDM via multiple mechanisms, such as eliminating free radicals, downregulating inflammation, promoting insulin secretion and signaling, targeting hepatic gluconeogenesis and glycogen storage metabolism, and regulating the intestinal...