| abstract |
The present invention provides a composition that is highly safe and excellent in reducing body fat and neutral fat such as visceral fat and subcutaneous fat, and also provides foods, pharmaceuticals, and feeds containing them. An orally administered composition having a body fat reducing action and / or a neutral fat reducing action characterized by containing a carotenoid and a flavonoid and / or a derivative thereof. Preferably, the carotenoid is a crypt. Xanthine and / or a fatty acid ester thereof, and preferably the flavonoid and / or derivative thereof is at least one selected from the group consisting of hesperidin, a derivative thereof and hesperetin, and preferably Carotenoids and flavonoids and / or derivatives thereof are derived from citrus. [Selection] Figure 1 |