Korean scientists have developed a technology for the production of antibiotics from the national Korean dish - kimchi, reports Medical News Today.

This dish is more known in our country as Korean kale. But actually kimchi - it's any vegetables, chopped, mixed with pepper chilli, garlic and ginger and left to wander, as the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years Pannochka. Net Professor of microbiology at Seoul State University, Kang Sa-ouk, announced that his laboratory had developed a method for mass production of antimicrobial proteins with the help of the microorganism Pediococcus pentosaceus found in containers with kimchi.

The study was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of South Korea.

The research team of Professor Kang together with the venture companies Cellbiotech and Green Gene Biotech has completed the initial decoding of the genome of Pediococcus pentosaceus isolated from kimchi. Scientists explain that in the process of analyzing the genetic information of this microorganism causing lactic fermentation, a unique antibiotic called Pediocin.

Scientists claim that a new antibiotic can kill bacteria that cause gastritis and cause food poisoning.

"Since the antibiotic isolated from food is harmless to the human body, it can replace the existing more toxic antibiotics, to which bacteria have also developed resistance," says Professor Kang.

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