Good news for wine lovers. Healthy probiotics bacteria have been discovered in wine that may be beneficial for people's health, new research finds.
Researchers in Spain isolated 11 strains of bacteria from wine, including
Lactobacillus, also found in yogurt, as well as
Oenococcus and
Pediococcus bacteria, which are associated with the wine-making process, the
LiveScience Website reports.
"Up to now, many studies have reported that the best [foods] to deliver probiotics are dairy fermented products, so that the probiotic properties of wine-related [Lactobacillus] were hardly studied," said Dolores González de Llano of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain.
"Nowadays, there is a need for novel and nondairy probiotics, from the increasing number of lactose-intolerance cases occurring in the world population, coupled with the unfavorable effect of cholesterol contained in fermented dairy products."
Probiotics are live organisms that are believed to be beneficial primarily for maintaining a healthy community of gut bacteria and bowel function, and may also have anti-cancer and cholesterol-lowering properties.
The findings of the new study will be published in the December issue of the journal Food Microbiology.
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