Prebiotics in burdock root

Recently, scientists found a unique enzyme in Japanese diet, which can increase the beneficial bacteria in human intestinal tract After a period of research, scientists summarized the results and presented it at the international food and Nutrition Conference In July 2016, Dr norihisa Kato pointed out that they would release the latest results of the research in October, and Yang Yongshou, a doctoral student from Hiroshima University, participated in the project The above vegetable is burdock root, which is called burdock root in English and gobo in Japanese This kind of vegetable will have different nutrition because of different cooking methods Raw and cooked vegetables have little effect on human health Like other foods with high dietary fiber, if you want to be beneficial to the large intestine, you need to eat the worst taste, which may be similar to bitter medicine However, in recent in vivo experiments, scientists have found that burdock fermented by Aspergillus can greatly improve its health care effect Dr Kato's team has further studied the mechanism and found that an enzyme will be produced during the fermentation process, which may be the key "After we isolated the enzyme, we carried out experiments in rats and found that the number of bifidobacteria increased significantly in the large intestine of rats with the enzyme added to food, and the intestinal microenvironment improved significantly," he said After conversion, if we want to achieve the health care effect, adults generally need to eat about 0.1 to 0.4gd of enzyme every day, relatively speaking, people need to eat 20g of burdock to achieve the same effect In the large intestine, proteases break down undigested proteins into amino acids A large number of amino acids can promote the utilization of nutrients, and finally increase the number of more beneficial bacteria, the researchers said Because with the increase of age, the number of bifidobacteria in the body will gradually decrease, leading to the reduction of the resistance of the body to some intestinal inflammation and cancer The mechanism has not been fully proved, but we know that the use of this enzyme can increase the number of bacteria In our life, we often eat yoghurt to increase the number of bifidobacteria However, due to the sensitive bacteria, it can not survive and grow well, and finally it can not achieve the desired effect (BIOON Com)