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Antibody Food Spices

Posted by Hemos on from the adding-it-all-in dept.

jargon writes "Flouride...antibiotics...looks like they now want to add antibodies to your food. "Adding spices laced with antibodies to your cooking could help protect against food poisoning bacteria, according to scientists.""

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  1. Bloop by KDan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Doope.

    Daniel

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  2. Re:Antibodies in food by KDan · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it wouldn't. We're talking about antibodies, not antibiotics. Antibodies are molecules that bind to the receptors of bacteria/viruses and thus prevent them from binding to your cells and infecting them. That's all they do - basically turn harmful agents into harmless dust-like particles. They're not alive, they're not poison. They're pretty cool!

    Daniel

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  3. Not neccessary to do this... by kfx · · Score: 3, Informative

    While this looks like a great boon to people's immune systems, it's been known for some time that certain spices such as wild oregano oil (normal oregano is much milder) have very strong bacteria-fighting properties. Unfortunately, wild oregano is very rare, gorws only on mountains, and is illegal (!) to remove from those mountains... People really should look into getting ahold of some wild oregano and try growing it in bulk elsewhere or even try engineering it to strengthen its bacteria-fighting properties... now that would be useful.