“…Among 12 papers included (Birari et al, ; Cha, Song, Kim, & Pan, ; Chatsumpun, Sritularak, & Likhitwitayawuid, ; Jeong, Cho, Kim, & Kim, ; Jeong et al, ; Nakai et al, ; Ray, Samanta, Mitra, & De, ; Shimura et al, ; Sugiyama et al, ; Wikiera et al, ; Won et al, ; Yuda et al, ), seven studies investigated the anti‐lipase activity of chalcone derivatives while five studies mentioned that of xanthine derivatives. The predominant study design was in vitro among all of them with the unique exception of Birari et al (), which was both in vitro and in vivo with no clinical study found .…”