France warned Wednesday against dietary supplements promising weight loss that use the tropical plant Garcinia cambogia after ...

Supplements that use the Garcinia plant have been linked to serious health complications, to the concern of authorities.

Garcinia cambogia -- which is also called Garcinia gummi-gutta or Malabar tamarind -- grows in India and Southeast Asia and has a fruit that looks like a pumpkin.

France warned Wednesday against dietary supplements promising weight loss that use the tropical plant Garcinia cambogia after a range of rare but serious side effects including one death were ...

The plant has been banned from being used medicine since 2012 in France, but continues to be advertised in more 340 dietary supplements, which are mostly available online, the agency said in a ...