High cholesterol is considered one of the most important factors for the coronary arterial disease development. As a result, effective treatments with medicine were developed to fight it; even so, they present high cost and collateral effects. Considering this fact, patients have required treatments using popular and scientific well-known food whose effect is to decrease the fat rate. Several researches are being carried out with eggplant with the objective of investigating their possible effects in the reduction of the blood fat. The species Solanum melongena has been the target of several studies due to its popular use in weight-loss diets, as it increases the elimination of fat and fights the exceeding cholesterol. This work aims at showing a literature review about the species Solanum melongena, of the family Solanaceae, associated with the reduction of fats by the organism. For this purpose twenty-five references were consulted.
Solanum melongena; eggplant; dislipidemy; cholesterol; review
