“While trying to find a substance which has a similar chemical structure to that of capsaicin which is known to burn fat, we discovered raspberry ketone,” said Mariko Hara, a researcher at Kanebo’s basic research laboratory in Odawara, on the outskirts of Tokyo.

“The essential oil of raspberries melts human fat more than three times as much as capsaicin,” she told Reuters.

Clinical tests with diet pills and adhesive sheet-type plasters containing the raspberry compound as the active ingredient have turned out promising results.

“Through clinical tests, 70 per cent of those tested were found to have lost about one kilogram after taking tablets with raspberry ketone for a week.

After using plasters for about one month, about five per cent of the fat or one millimetre of fat under the area covered by the plaster was found to have disappeared.

They say we might be seeing these products out in the market by middle of this year.

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Raspberry Compound as Fat Burner