{"id":469,"date":"2009-05-27T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:30:35","slug":"caralluma-fimbriata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/caralluma-fimbriata\/","title":{"rendered":"Caralluma fimbriata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian\u00a0cactus typically eaten as a vegetable.\u00a0 Caralluma fimbriata\u00a0also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ohrms\/dockets\/DOCKETS\/95s0316\/95s-0316-rpt0252-08-Exhibit-02-vol184.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a reputation as a hunger\/appetite suppressant<\/a> and is used as &#8220;famine food&#8221; in rural India.\u00a0 This is why extracts are\u00a0used in a number of weight loss supplements.\u00a0 Caralluma fimbriata also contains a range of pregnane glycosides which allegedly interfere with the body&#8217;s ability to\u00a0accumulate body fat (the proposed mechanism is similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/garcinia-cambogia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garcinia cambogia<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A proprietary\u00a0Caralluma extract\u00a0is currently being marketed under the name Slimaluma\u00ae,\u00a0although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17097761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a controlled study<\/a> on this ingredient\u00a0indicates the weight\/fat loss benefits are relatively modest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian\u00a0cactus typically eaten as a vegetable.\u00a0 Caralluma fimbriata\u00a0also has a reputation as a hunger\/appetite suppressant and is used as &#8220;famine food&#8221; in rural India.\u00a0 This is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[128,221,420,425,530,882,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}