Abstract: Lipase inhibitors can reduce the digestion and absorption of dietary lipids by inhibiting pancreatic lipase activity,achieving the purpose of the control and treatment of obesity.Plantderived natural products have a lot of virtues,such as a wide range of sources,structural diversity,highly specificity and low toxicity.Therefore,screening of safe and effective lipase inhibitors derived from plant become a hot topic.This paper reviewed both the methods of determination of lipase inhibiting activity and the lipase inhibitors derived from plants based on the chemical structure.

Key words: methods of determination of lipase inhibiting activity, pancreatic lipase inhibitor, plant-derived natural products