Opportunities and challenges in using NIH's Dietary Supplement Label Database for research on non-nutrient ingredients: Use case for ingredients in honeybee products.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-nutrient bioactive ingredients of foods such as bee products are often of interest in preclinical and clinical research to explore their possible beneficial effects. The National Institute of Health's Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) contains over 165,000 labels of dietary supplements marketed in the United States of America (US), including declarations on labels for many of these ingredients, including those in honeybee products which have been used in foods and traditional medicines for centuries worldwide and are now also appearing in dietary supplements.

Methods

This article presents a use case for honeybee products that describes and tests the utility of the DSLD and other databases available in the US as research tools for identifying and quantif

SUBMITTER: Durazzo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11243758 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature