Ribose Intake as Food Integrator: Is It a Really Convenient Practice?

Reports concerning the beneficial effects of D-ribose administration in cardiovascular and muscle stressful conditions has led to suggestions for the use of ribose as an energizing food supplement for healthy people. However, this practice still presents too many critical issues, suggesting that caution is needed. In fact, there are many possible negative effects of this sugar that we believe are underestimated, if not neglected, by the literature supporting the presentation of the product to the market. Here, the risks deriving from the use of free ribose as ATP source, forcing ribose-5-phosphate to enter into the pentose phosphate pathway, is emphasized. On the basis of the remarkable glycation capacity of ribose, the easily predictable cytotoxic effect of the molecule is also highlighted.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Biomolecules

• Publication date

  2022-11-29

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine

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  DOI 10.3390/biom12121775PMID 36551203PMCID 9776227
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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