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26.07.2024 |
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Vegetable garden diversifies microbiome
Vegetable gardeners are often a little healthier than people who have to buy all their food. Part of the explanation for this may be that eating from a vegetable garden makes the microbiome in the intestines more diverse, American researchers speculate in Scientific Reports.
Study
10 families grew their own vegetables in a vegetable garden. A vegetable garden does not yield anything in April, but it does in August. In that month, children spontaneously cry when daddy comes home with yet another eight-kilo zucchini or yet another shopping bag of pole beans. Only when dad threatens to donate the crybabies to an orphanage do they come to their senses.
The 9 other families got their food from the store.
Results
However, in the season when vegetable garden dads start searching the internet for orphanages, the biodiversity of the microbiome of the vegetable garden family was significantly greater than that of the other families.
In the table above - click on it for a larger version - you see the bacteria that were significantly higher in the vegetable gardeners than in the other group during the vegetable garden season. In the table below you see the bacteria that increased significantly in the samples from the vegetable gardeners in August.
This includes Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides stercoris, Butyricicoccus spp. and Eubacterium xylanophilum group spp..
The researchers also found a relatively large number of bacteria that had probably entered the microbiome of the vegetable gardeners through the soil of the vegetable garden.
Conclusion
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