Beer’s bitter compound help fight cancer?
The compound that gives beer its distinct bitter flavour can also lead to new drugs for diabetes and certain type of cancers, scientists claim.
Scientists from the University of Washington used a century-old observational technique to determine the precise configuration of humulones, substances derived from hops that give beer its distinctive flavour.
The findings overturn results reported in scientific literature in the last 40 years, according to the study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International.
“Now that we have the right results, what happens to the bitter hops in the beer-brewing process makes a lot more sense,” said Werner Kaminsky, a University of Washington research associate professor of chemistry.
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