Antimicrobial Properties of Spent Hops Extracts, Flavonoids Isolated Therefrom, and Their Derivatives

[w_houle]

Here’s an interesting article

Antimicrobial Properties of Spent Hops Extracts, Flavonoids Isolated Therefrom, and Their Derivatives

Hop cones preparations possess a wide range of biological activities including antimicrobial properties. In this work, we evaluated the effect of various organic extracts obtained from spent hops, as well as six hops flavonoids and their twenty natural ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Deleted member 619]

Care to expand on what's interesting about it? I'm not saying it isn't, but it's conventional to do a little ground work rather than link-dumping.

I mean, sure, I might be interested in it from the title alone if the subject matter overlaps with my areas of interest, but there's nothing in the title that draws me in.

I could simply click through, but I always have a lot to read, so some indication of what's good, maybe a c&p of the abstract or some personal commentary on what you found interesting. You know, content.

Just a thought.

 

[w_houle]

The hop bitter acids (humulones and lupulones) have shown activity against Gram-positive bacteria i.e. Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Listeria, Clostridium and Bacillus species [17,18,19,20,21], gram-negative bacteria i.e. Helicobacter pylori and Brucellaspecies [22,23] and some fungi i.e. Candida, Trichophyton, Fusarium and Mucor species [10].

 

[ldmitruk]

I prefer doing 'research' on the results of the use of hops.

 

[w_houle]

Here’s an article on how coliforms can be brewed out of contaminated water supplies. Thus making beer a significant health improvement over nothing
https://beersyndicate.com/blog/tag/duck-pond-beer/