Fruit-industry funded study of the day: III. Mango leaf extract

The study:  Martinez-Canton M, Galvan-Alvarez V, Garcia-Gonzalez E, Gallego-Selles A, Gelabert-Rebato M, Garcia-Perez G, Santana A, Lopez-Rios L, Vega-Morales T, Martin-Rincon M, et al. A Mango Leaf Extract (Zynamite^®) Combined with Quercetin Has Exercise-Mimetic Properties in Human Skeletal Muscle. Nutrients. 2023; 15(13):2848. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15132848

Hypothesis:  Zynamite PX^®, a mango leaf extract combined with quercetin, enhances exercise performance by unknown molecular mechanisms.

Conclusion: Zynamite PX^® elicits muscle signaling changes in resting skeletal muscle resembling those described for exercise training and partly abrogates the stress kinases responses to exercise as observed in trained muscles.

Funding: This investigation was co-financed in part by Nektium Pharma S.L., Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad…Consejo Superior de Deportes de España (EXP_75097), FEDER and Cabildo de Gran Canaria…and FDCAN (Fondo de Desarrollo de Canarias).

Conflicts of Interest: The present investigation was partially financed by Nektium Pharma S.L, who provided the polyphenolic compounds and participated in the experimental design, although they were fully excluded from participation in experimental data collection, data analysis and interpretation of results. The remaining funding agencies had no role in study design, data collection, management, data analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report, and the decision to submit the report for publication.

Comment: This is a classic example of an industry-funded supplement study with favorable interpreted favorably.  The manufacturer paid for the study as part of a private-public partnership to aid businesses in the Canary Islands.