In Japan, the food with mulberry leaves as raw materials is often sold in the market as a functional food to reduce blood sugar, such as mulberry leaf noodles, mulberry leaf biscuits, mulberry tea, mulberry leaf juice drinks, mulberry leaf wine and other products. Why is mulberry leaf food so popular? This is because mulberry leaves contain an important polyhydroxypyridine alkaloid deoxynojirimycin. Deoxynojirimycin can be used to treat diabetes, obesity, virus infection and other diseases, with high drug value. Therefore, the application prospect of various functional health food made of deoxynojirimycin is very broad.

    Deoxynojirimycin has important application value in the field of medicine because of its hypoglycemic properties. It is the synthetic precursor of miglitol, which is currently used in the treatment of diabetes. It plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of diabetes. The listed diabetes drugs are n-hydroxyethyl-1-deoxyaza-d-glucose. Other deoxynojirimycin drugs include n-hydroxyethyl-1-deoxyaza-d-glucose, which can be used as anti HIV drugs and treat GSL lysozyme accumulation diseases. Deoxynojirimycin is a powerful α - glucosidase inhibitor, and its absorption is better than acarbose; It is better than sulfonylureas to inhibit the conversion of sugar in human body, reduce the increase of fasting blood glucose and postprandial blood glucose, and the possibility of hypoglycemia and other side effects is much lower than other hypoglycemic drugs, with good safety; The use of deoxynojirimycin can not change the normal diet structure.  

    Although the industrialization of deoxynojirimycin has just started, with more and more research on deoxynojirimycin and the continuous improvement of its extraction and purification process, the industrial prospect of deoxynojirimycin is very promising. With the progress of science and technology andDeoxynojirimycinWith the continuous embodiment of its medicinal value, more and more studies on deoxynojirimycin have been carried out. According to the literature, in recent years, scholars at home and abroad have done more research on deoxynojirimycin in mulberry leaves, and the yield of mulberry is high in China. If the research in this direction is mature, it can not only greatly increase the yield of natural deoxynojirimycin, but also enhance the utilization rate of mulberry. In addition, deoxynojirimycin in other plants and microorganisms also has broad research space.