New research finds that the lactic acid bacteria in kimchi could eliminate nanoplastics from the body. The World Institute of Kimchi announced on Wednesday that it had injected ...

New research finds that the lactic acid bacteria in kimchi could eliminate nanoplastics from the body.

The World Institute of Kimchi announced on Wednesday that it had injected lab mice with Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656, a type of lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi, and found that their detected nanoplastic levels were more than twice as high as those of mice not injected with CBA3656.

Edit: Link to the paper

  • bryophile@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Wait. Lab mice injected with the lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi had nanoplastic levels twice as high than those not injected… That’s the opposite of the claim in the title.

    I had to read this a couple of times.

    • EffortlessGrace@piefed.socialEnglish
      20·
      9 days ago

      The next paragraph says:

      The institute said those figures support the possibility that CBA3656 reacted with nanoplastics in the intestine and promoted their excretion from the body, thus exhibiting high nanoplastic biosorption efficiency.