新加坡研发出益生菌啤酒可改善肠道健康_时事

新加坡研发出益生菌啤酒可改善肠道健康

酷热的夏天来一杯冰爽的啤酒可谓人生一大乐事，现在科学家研发出了一种益生菌啤酒，可以改善你的免疫系统，中和体内的病原体和毒素，让你喝喝更健康。

If you needed yet another reason to drink beer, science just gave it to you. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) just developed a new type of probiotic beer which could improve your immune system and neutralize pathogens and toxins.

如果喝啤酒还需要理由的话，科学家可以给你个理由。新加坡国立大学研究人员刚刚研发了一种新型的益生菌啤酒，这种啤酒可以改善你的免疫系统，消除体内的病原体和毒素。

The idea of developing a healthy, probiotic beer, came from Miss Chan Mei Zhi Alcine, a fourth-year student from the Food Science and Technology Programme at the NUS Faculty of Science. Chan realized that while the market abounds with dairy-based probiotics, there’s another huge untapped market for probiotics: beer. Due to its nature, beer is a fertile ground for probiotics, and the craft beer phenomenon has been growing at a staggering rate in many parts of the world — so why not blend the two?

研发健康的益生菌啤酒这一灵感 “The health benefits of probiotics are well known. While good bacteria are often present in food that have been fermented, there are currently no beers in the market that contain probiotics. Developing sufficient counts of live probiotics in beer is a challenging feat as beers contain hop acids that prevent the growth and survival of probiotics. As a believer of achieving a healthy diet through consuming probiotics, this is a natural choice for me when I picked a topic for my final-year project,” said Miss Chan, who will be graduating in July 2017.