“…In recent years, many phytochemicals have been studied for their inhibitory activity against a-amylase, like green coffee extracts (Narita & Inouye, 2011), tea extracts (Fei et al, 2014;Sun et al, 2016), pomegranate extracts (Kam et al, 2013), etc., and the main components that demonstrated the inhibitory activity were shown to be phenolic compounds. Aqueous extracts from fruits or plants are generally a mixture of polyphenols and soluble polysaccharides, in part due to binding interactions between the two components (Chamorro, Viveros, Alvarez, Vega, & Brenes, 2012).…”