Bread as Medicine? New Brazilian Bread May Prevent Asthma

Bread made with probiotic yeast showed promising results in mouse experiments, indicating its potential to combat asthma, which affects 20 million Brazilians.
Brazilian researchers have created a type of bread that could potentially prevent asthma, a respiratory condition that leads to approximately 350,000 hospital admissions annually in the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), the country’s public health system.

The formulation, for which a patent application has been filed in Brazil (BR1020210266465), is described in an article published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition. It contains Saccharomyces cerevisiae UFMG A-905, a strain of brewer’s yeast with probiotic properties that has been shown to attenuate the symptoms of asthma in mice. Further trials involving human volunteers are still required.