Soaked in water soybeans have a high wiping activity
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Soybeans, which are soaked in water, can become the newest source of a substance with high anticancer activity, which is obtained today in a difficult and long industrial way. Details of the relevant study can be found in an article published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
About 10 years have passed since then, as it became known that soybeans contain a significant amount of protein that inhibits the synthesis of the serine protease BBI, exerting cytostatic action and restraining mitotic division of cells. It is clear that such properties are in high demand in medicine, drugs with cytostatic action are used in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and serious allergic diseases, and in addition to prevent reactions of rejection after transplantation. In the case of the BBI protein, the first promising results of medical research appeared at the beginning of the last decade.
One of the fascinating facts related to BBI soy and protein is that, probably, this protein, consumed by Japanese in large numbers, is responsible for an incredibly low mortality rate due to cancer diseases in this state. It's a pity that today's ways of extracting BBI protein from soybeans require a very long time and involve the exploitation of very hard chemical reagents.
Scientists from the Missouri Institute (USA) managed to create a new, surprisingly primitive, which does not require the use of any chemicals at all, the technology of extraction of BBI protein from soybeans. It is enough to sustain the beans in warm water at 50 to cause the natural release of a large amount of BBI protein into the water, from which the protein can be easily extracted. All ingenious is simple: how could be beans subjected to expensive chemical treatment for 10 years, if this can be done with the help of elementary water?
As a test for the efficacy of the protein isolated in this way, in vitro studies were conducted showing that the BBI protein produced according to the new method stops the division of cancer cells in breast cancer.
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