A recent study has discovered the importance of eating green leafy vegetables and especially spinach. Popeye already said it, that spinach was good, but it was not known that they were so good. This research focuses on the intestinal bacteria and how they use hydrogen sulfide gas and turn it into something beneficial.
We all know that the gases we expel of our body are harmful, well, there is a specific one that is hydrogen sulfide found in vegetables and green leafy vegetables and is expelled creating a sensation of relief and with an anti-inflammatory effect.
According to a group of microbiologists from the University of Vienna and the University of Konstanz, they discovered that many vegetables and green leafy vegetables have a sulfur-containing sugar called sulfoquinovose.
The study, which was published in The ISME Journal, explained that bacteria found naturally in the intestine produce a gas called hydrogen sulfide after eating spinach. This gas is very characteristic, since it smells like rotten eggs. High concentrations of this gas in the intestines cause cancer.
And this is where the research is focused. The bacteria that inhabit our intestines are capable of feeding and processing sulfoquinovose, using it as a nutrient and helping to generate the growth of key microorganisms in the gut microbiome.
By promoting the growth of Eubacterium rectale, (one of the 10 most common intestinal microbes in healthy individuals), these bacteria ferment sulfoquinovose through a metabolic pathway which, in turn, serves as food for them and where it is ultimately created. hydrogen sulfide that is expelled abroad in the form of foul-smelling flatulence.
The stinking flatulence cannot dissuade us from continuing to eat green leaves and especially spinach, since it favors our body and our intestinal flora. Reducing the possibilities of suffering from cancer due to the accumulation of hydrogen sulfide and other harmful gases.