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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.
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.
The institute concluded that the latest finding scientifically demonstrates that lactic acid bacteria in kimchi can interact with fine particulate matter.
The latest research was published in the scientific journal Bioresource Technology.