This is a slow morning, my colleges & I were kidding
around, boss is away in a conference of sorts. The topic that were passionately
discussed today is what’s in the news lately- something close to our hearts or maybe
butts- haha- baby’s poop! Would you dare try sausages made from babe's poop?
Apparently bacteria from baby poop can help make delicious
sausages, which could transform savory meats into health foods much like
probiotic yogurts, according to new research. Ok before you even go yucks…. Just
read onJ
For millennia, cultures across the globe have relied on
microbes to help create a dazzling variety of foods and drinks. The most
familiar examples are the yeasts used to make wine, beer and other alcohol. Bacteria
and yeast ferment sugars in foods, generating acids, gases and alcohols. Bread
gets its spongy texture from bubbles of carbon dioxide released by fermenting
yeast; cheese, pickles and kimchi traditionally often got their sharp taste via
fermentation as well.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that foods such
as yogurt that contain live probiotic bacteria can have a wide variety of
health benefits. For instance, these microbes could help burn away belly fat,
treat depression, lower inflammation, prevent urinary-tract infections and
fight infant gastrointestinal disorders such as constipation.
Scientists in Spain reasoned that probiotic bacteria could
be used in fermented sausages as well. Probiotic fermented sausages will give
an opportunity to consumers who don't take dairy products the possibility to
include probiotic foods to their diet. For probiotic bacteria to work, they
must survive the acids in the digestive tract. As such, the researchers focused
on microbes found alive in human feces.
Baby bacteria
The scientists concentrated on 43 fecal samples of healthy
infants up to 6 months old. The two kinds of bacteria used most often in
probiotics, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, are far more abundant in infant
poop than in adult excrement. In addition, infant feces are natural samples,
easy to obtain- from diapersJ
The scientists tried fermenting six batches of sausages
using three strains of bacteria found in baby poop and three other, commercial
probiotic strains of bacteria. Studies they had done in the past established
the strains they used from infant excrement were safe for people.
Specifically, the investigators made "fuet," a
kind of Mediterranean fermented pork sausage commonly found in Catalonia in
northeastern Spain. It resembles the Spanish fermented sausage known as
"chorizo," although fuet does not contain paprika like chorizo does
and is also usually shorter, thinner, less acidic and less fatty. (The sausages
the researchers made had no feces in them, only bacteria cultured from the
poop.)
The scientists tried their creations as well. According to
them, they tasted very good !!!! Future
research needs to confirm if this strain of bacteria actually has probiotic
effects. Meanwhile, they can be used for the production of tasty fermented
sausages. However no companies are currently interested in commercializing
these sausages…..hmmmmm wonder why????? …lol…..
