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
Wait So the kimchi company said kimchi is good for you? Is this surprising?
Eh. It’s easy to be jaded about it, but that doesn’t make the study bad.
You have a team of scientists who study kimchi for years and years. They tried it with Alzheimer’s and it failed. They tried it got weight loss and it failed. Eventually they find something that works.
The real issue is that the group doesn’t seem trustworthy because they don’t publish their negative results. If they published both positive and negative, it’d be harder to claim they’re simply shills.
The World Institute of Kimchi is an affiliate institution of Korea Food Research Institute, which is government-funded. (per Wikipedia)
I like the implication that this could just be the new Spinach