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
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bryophile@lemmy.zip · 80 pts · 161d
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.
Squiddlioni@kbin.melroy.org · 86 pts · 161d
The next paragraph in the article is:
Essentially "we see a lot more nanoplastics freely moving around instead of embedded where they're hard to measure."
Normal scientific asterisks are in play: this was bacteria isolated from kimchi, not kimchi itself. For all I know, kimchi could introduce more nanoplastics than the bacteria remove. The bacteria could also not have the same behavior when they're on kimchi and have other things to eat. There isn't much information on the process used, so it could be that the samples they used were contaminated with nanoplastic and that's why they saw more. This was also published by "The World Institute of Kimchi". Not that they couldn't find a real effect, just that this isn't remotely unbiased.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 161d
Does Korea still have a somewhat tainted rep of trustworthiness in research?
Having lived in Korea many moons ago, I recall the nationalism being absolutely bonkers in romanticising anything Korean being superior. I remember hearing many times that Korean scientists are better than anywhere else in the world because Korean children eat with metal chopsticks. Yep, this was considered a fact.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 161d
They're also safe from electric fans. Metal chopsticks + no fans stealing their souls while they sleep... Actually, I can't even finish my thought on this one. I'm a US citizen. South Korea is doing pretty well by my current standards.
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d
Wait, does the superiority come from the shape or the material? Is there a hierarchy, with wood and fiberglass chopsticks also having different effects? How does it compare to eating with metal forks?
I'm morbidly curious about the exact contours of the nonsense.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 160d
It's harder to eat with metal chopsticks because they are more slippery than wooden ones.
bryophile@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 160d
I can confirm kimchi helps me poop, so I guess if I just got administered some nanoplastics there would be more nanoplastics in my poop.
EffortlessGrace@piefed.social · 20 pts · 161d
The next paragraph says:
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 159d
We are now quoting the world institute of Kimchi.
Eat kimchi, shit kimchi.
Midnight1938@reddthat.com · 33 pts · 161d
Wait So the kimchi company said kimchi is good for you? Is this surprising?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 160d
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.
FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 160d
The World Institute of Kimchi is an affiliate institution of Korea Food Research Institute, which is government-funded. (per Wikipedia)
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 160d
I like the implication that this could just be the new Spinach
Pissmidget@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 161d
I'm still on the old micro plastic edition, will this still work, or do I need to upgrade to the nano plastic edition before seeing the benefits?
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 160d
Now you need to pay for the Microplastic 365 aka Plastics as a Service.
grue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 160d
Can I get the same bacteria from sauerkraut instead?
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d
Stupid Kimchi and Its fishiness. Probably different bacteria
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
The fishiness is from fish sauce and salted/fermented shrimp. You can make kimchi without those, just use something else for umami.
The bacteria are basically the same.
undrwater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
The same as kraut? My guess would be no if the kimchi has ingredients the kraut doesn't (ie fish).
I'm going to read the paper, quite interested in the methodology.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
They're all lactic acid bacteria. The exact species might vary in different regions, like yeast, so kimchi from Korea and sauerkraut made in Germany might have slightly different species, but if you were to get local cabbage and make them both at home, they would have essentially the same bacteria.
mpdarkguy@piefed.world · 13 pts · 161d
No link to the paper and a poorly translated article ðŸ˜
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 160d
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852426003159
undrwater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
Oh crap. My hope was to read the paper as I'm quite intrigued.
Sigh.
melfie@lemy.lol · 11 pts · 160d
tino@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 160d
the main problem i see here is that the bacteria is in kimchi, and the nanoplastics are in my body. The solution would be to put kimchi in my body? no fucking way!
davidgro@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 160d
I agree, but there's hope: It says they injected the mice, which implies that a hypodermic needle could be an option.
I have no love of needles, but given the alternative...
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 160d
...in mice
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 161d
Also, bacteria in my body can eliminate kimchi from my body.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 161d
The World Institute of Kimchi undertook a lab top exercise using mice and an exogenous chemical that is found I kimchi. I'm not holding my breath for this one.
xep@discuss.online · 5 pts · 160d
Not sure I'd want to inject bacteria into myself, even if I were a mouse.
rosgl@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 161d
Not reversing the climate change yet?