{"id":301,"date":"2009-04-05T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T02:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:26","slug":"phaseolus-vulgaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/phaseolus-vulgaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Phaseolus vulgaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The botanical name for white kidney beans.\u00a0 Phaseolus vulgaris extracts contain &#8220;Phaseolamin&#8221;,\u00a0an inhibitor of\u00a0alpha-amylase &#8211;\u00a0the enzyme responsible for\u00a0digesting dietary starches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In theory, phaseolamin-containing &#8220;carb-blockers&#8221; can help with weight loss by limiting the carb calories absorbed from foods.\u00a0\u00a0An early study on a commercial supplement, &#8220;Phase 2&#8221;,\u00a0showed a non-significant trend for weight loss&#8230;a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17658120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow up studies have been more promising<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medsci.org\/v04p0045.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">although the results have not been overwhelming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See Paul&#8217;s review &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/carb-blocker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carb Blockers &#8211; Do Carb Blockers Really Prevent the Absorption of Carbohydrates<\/a>?&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The botanical name for white kidney beans.\u00a0 Phaseolus vulgaris extracts contain &#8220;Phaseolamin&#8221;,\u00a0an inhibitor of\u00a0alpha-amylase &#8211;\u00a0the enzyme responsible for\u00a0digesting dietary starches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In theory, phaseolamin-containing &#8220;carb-blockers&#8221; can help with weight loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[90,218,222,224,748,749,891,982,986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}