The search keywords contained “eggplant”, “Solanummelongena”, “aubergine”, “metabolic syndrome”, “diabetes”, “hyperglycemia”, “insulin”, “hypoglycemic”, “antihyperglycemic”, “antidiabetic”, “blood glucose”, “hypertension”, “blood pressure”, “hypotensive”, “antihypertensive”, “dyslipidemia”, “hyperlipidemia”, “high cholesterol”, “high triglyceride”, “hypercholesterolemia”, “hypertriglyceridemia”, “atherogenic”, “atherosclerosis”, “obesity”, “overweight”, “appetite”, “anti-obesity” and “weight loss”. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is diabetes mellitus.