Myricetin is a natural flavonol widely occurring in wines. Many beneficial effects of myricetin in alcoholic beverages have been reported before, but never including anti-obesity. In the present study, we fed obese male Sprague-Dawley rats with ethanol solutions containing various concentrations of myricetin and found that myricetin may maintain the food intake while reduce the weight-gain, feed efficiency, level of blood lipids, adipocyte size, and weight and size of the perirenal and epididymal adipose tissues (P < 0.01). Our experiment data also show that the anti-obesity effect may be associated with the upregulation of adropin and β-endorphin levels. Based on the above-described findings, we propose the potential for myricetin-containing alcoholic beverages to be developed into anti-obesity health food.
Keywords: ethanol solution; high-fat diet; myricetin; obesity.
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