Q2. What are the main components of weight management?
Conventional managements of overweight and obesity include low-fat diet, exercise, behavioural interventions and pharmacological agents.
Q3. What are the main classes of compounds in Moro orange extract?
Results obtained from the analysis of the chromatograms showed that the extract contained several citrus class compounds such as anthocyanins, flavone glycosides, hydroxycinnamic acids and ascorbic acid.
Q4. What is the effect of MoroEx on body weight?
Results obtained in these clinical trials showed that MoroEx intake is able to induce a significant reduction in body weight, BMI, waist and hip circumference in comparison with the non-treated group.
Q5. What are the main comorbidities of obesity?
Other comorbidities include gallbladder disease, fatty liver, sleep apnoea and osteoarthritis with reduced quality of life and life expectancy (Sengupta et al. 2012).
Q6. What is the coloration of the oranges?
The typical red coloration of the fruits is attributed to the presence of pigmented compounds called anthocyanins, not usually contained in blond sweet oranges and other citrus fruits.
Q7. What is the effect of Moro juice on weight loss?
Results showed that Moro juice extract intake was able to induce a significant reduction in body mass index (BMI) after 4 weeks of treatment (p , 0.05).
Q8. What is the main antisteatotic effect of MoroEx?
Previous study carried out on in vitro and in vivomodels has proven that Moro juice intake is able to affect fat accumulation (Titta et al. 2009; Salamone et al. 2012).
Q9. How much weight reduction was observed in MoroEx treated volunteers?
a significant reduction in body weight (BMI) was observed in volunteers treated with MoroEx after 4 weeks of treatment ( p , 0.05).
Q10. What is the main class of compounds in Moro juice?
On the basis of these interesting results, a randomised, placebo, doubleblinded clinical trial was carried out to evaluate the effects of Moro juice extract intake in decreasing the body weight in human healthy subjects.
Q11. What is the role of MoroEx in the prevention of obesity?
Even if further investigations could be useful to better understand the activity and mechanism of action of Moro juice, results obtained in this study showed that MoroEx supplementation could be considered a natural ingredient useful in the management of overweight and in the prevention of obesity.
Q12. What is the effect of Moro juice on obesity?
All these findings suggest that Moro juice anti-obesity effect cannot be explained only by anthocyanins as other components contained in Moro orange may act synergistically to inhibit fat accumulation (Titta et al. 2009; Salamone et al. 2012).