Fermented Foods

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05/12/2017 Added

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University of Nebraska leads an international team of researchers in a study of the health benefits of fermented food. The process of fermentation creates bacteria that make certain foods healthier.

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[00:00:01.162]We got researchers from around the globe
[00:00:03.776]and the focus was,
[00:00:05.069]what are the health benefits in the scientific literature
[00:00:08.638]for fermented foods?
[00:00:10.425]And we were fairly convinced
[00:00:12.288]at the end of our study
[00:00:14.782]that the data is pretty strong
[00:00:18.618]for health benefits for a number
[00:00:20.403]of these different foods.
[00:00:22.461]First thing that's important to realize
[00:00:24.170]is that our gastrointestinal tract
[00:00:26.760]is a huge reservoir
[00:00:28.996]of microorganisms
[00:00:30.806]and what they're doing there
[00:00:32.734]is preventing unwanted foreigners,
[00:00:35.700]perhaps like salmonella or listeria,
[00:00:38.235]from gaining a foothold.
[00:00:39.856]They're also communicating with their immune system,
[00:00:42.445]they're providing nutrients and vitamins
[00:00:45.199]that our body's unable to normally make on their own.
[00:00:48.986]Fermented foods themselves have nutritional benefit
[00:00:52.066]beyond that which occurs in the natural fluid
[00:00:54.986]in the raw food from which it was made.
[00:00:57.609]So yogurt is somehow healthier
[00:00:59.739]than the milk from which it was made
[00:01:01.717]and it's because of the microorganisms
[00:01:04.551]that are in these foods
[00:01:05.796]that perform the fermentation.
[00:01:08.231]We're eating those microorganisms
[00:01:10.401]when we eat a cup of yogurt.
[00:01:12.757]The bacteria are able to reach
[00:01:14.346]our gastrointestinal tract
[00:01:16.129]and produce end products
[00:01:17.850]that are healthy for our gut health.
[00:01:20.963]The authors of the recent paper
[00:01:22.450]that we published,
[00:01:23.945]encourage public health authorities
[00:01:25.930]to consider fermented foods as its own category,
[00:01:29.526]especially fermented foods that have live organisms.

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