: Due to increase in awareness of the health benefits of the use of dietary fruits and vegetables, millions of people have increased their consumption in their diet. Vernonia amygdalina was shown to have skin; anti-obesity; body calming and body vitalizing effects in humans. The skin; anti-obesity; body calming and body energizing effects of the extracts of three other vegetables which are frequently used in foods as food condiments and/or as socializing drinks were compared with those of VA leaf extract. The extracts compared with those of VA leaf act were aethiopica [XE] fruit extract. Each of the four vegetable or herbal extracts was taken independently for one week in four separate unconnected experiments within three months so that each extract acted on the body without the interference of another extract. The effect of each extract was captured in a picture of the subject taken at the end of the subject’s treatment with the extract. The results of the study showed that the four herbal extracts produced skin colour lightening (skin infections and blemishes clearing) and skin lusture effects in the order of VA > ZO > XE >HS. The four herbal extracts produced skin firming effects in the order of VA > XE > HS > ZO. The four extracts produced anti-obesity and body energizing effects in the order of VA > HS > XE > ZO. Three of the four extracts also produced body calming effects in the order of VA > HS > XE. The fourth extract ZO (ginger) extract, produced body distressing effect (body disorganization effects. These results show that the alkaline herbal extract of Vernonia amygdalina leaf produced more skin colour lightening/ firming; anti-obesity; body calming and body vitalizing effects than the weak Hibiscus Sabdarifa flower extract; the moderately acid Xylopia aethiopica fruit extract and the strongly acid Zingiber officinale rhizome extract. The findings of the study also show that that the weakly acid Hibiscus sabdariffa extract had the least skin clearing effects while the strongly acid Zingiber officinale extract actually produced anti-body calming and anti-body vitalizing effects.
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