Bacteria found in probiotics – Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium – are also found in abundance
in baby poo. Spanish researchers believe this could be another way to get ‘healthy bacteria’ in the body.
They say that baby stools are an abundant source of probiotics that boost gut health – and that sausages containing it could become a health food.
This is because many types of sausages – including pepperoni and salami – are made with the aid of bacterial fermentation. The bacteria is either naturally occurring in the raw meat or added to the meat in the manufacturing process.
More and more evidence is showing that gut bacteria plays a crucial role in our health.
Changes to gut bacteria, that result in an imbalance between ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ bacteria, are associated with cancer, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease.
I Word Understanding
Probiotics – a dietary supplement containing live bacteria (as lactobacilli) that is taken orally to restore beneficial bacteria to the body
Gut health ? intestinal health
Bacterial fermentation – fermentation is a metabolic process converting sugar to acids, gases and/or alcohol. It occurs in yeast and bacteria.
II Have your say
1.. Would you go as far as eating a sausage containing bacteria from baby poo?
2 .Gruesome sounding remedies with supposed health benefits
Urine drinking
Nose picking
3. The researchers, led by Anna Jofre, a food microbiologist at Catalonia’s Institute of Food and
Agricultural Research, in Girona, Spain, took stool samples from the nappies of 43 babies aged
up to six months old. Is this a remarkable research?
214 Would YOU eat sausages made from BABY POO? Spanish scientists say they boost good gut bacteria
