Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
American Chemical Society
Combating Disease: Leaves of carob tree, source of chocolate substitute, fight virulent food-poisoning bacteria
1 seconds Posted Jan 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
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Today’s solution is an antibacterial extract from the leaves of the carob tree (the source of a popular chocolate substitute) that could fight the microbe responsible for the serious form of food poisoning called listeriosis. The research appears in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.