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Nutrition



Transporter's function provides support for eating vegetables, limiting antibiotics



March 22nd, 2004

Researchers have found another good reason to eat your fruits and vegetables and not abuse antibiotics.

A transporter in the colon called SLC5A8 plays an important role in enabling the colon to get the last bit of good out of food before the unusable is flushed away, according to research currently published online as an accelerated communication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In an amazing model of efficiency, good bacteria in the colon produce an enzyme that releases glucose found in plant cell walls, the leftovers of broccoli and other vegetables, fruits and cereals, which cannot be digested in the small intestine. In the anaerobic...


Source: Health & Medicine Week (2004-03-22)

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