What is a production substance?
Lactic acid bacteria-producing extract refers to the components produced and released during the growth of lactic acid
bacteria.
These ingredients are called lactic acid bacterium-producing substances, lactic acid bacterium-producing extracts, lactic
acid bacterium culture products, and various other names. but In the first place, it is rare for the general public
to see the ingredients produced by lactic acid bacteria, so it seems that they are often treated without any image.
These are words that have become "industry terms" and are actually called products, metabolites, etc. among researchers.
Lactic acid bacteria-producing extracts are often compared to silk moths and silk. Silk moths eat mulberry leaves to
produce silk threads, but mulberry leaves, of course, do not have a silk moth body.
The silk thread produced by silk moths using mulberry leaves as a nutrient source is likened to the way lactic acid
bacteria produce production substances using the food we eat as a nutrient source.
Use of silk moths, lactic acid bacteria and products
Creatures
to use | Silk moths | Enterobacteriaceae
(Lactic acid bacteria / bifidobacteria) |
||
---|---|---|---|---|
Size | 2mm〜80mm | 0.0005mm〜0.01mm | ||
Comfortable temperature | 25℃ | 36℃ | ||
Nutrients to give | Mulberry leaf | Sugar such as glucose | ||
Manufacturing process |
cocoon |
Fermented milk (soy milk) |
||
Ingredients
used as products |
Raw thread |
Chrysalis |
Lactic acid bacteria-producing extract |
Live and dead cells |
Products made |
Silk fabric |
Tsukudani, feed, etc. |
Kaikigen etc. |
Yogurt |
Product ingredients | Silk 100% | Chrysalis | 100% extract produced
by the fungus |
Live bacteria, dead cells, trace amount of
lactic acid bacteria-producing extract |
Product features | It takes time and effort,
Not suitable for mass production |
Almost not
in circulation |
Does not contain mycelium components,
It takes time and effort, Not suitable for mass production |
Suitable for
mass production |
Available quantity | Few | Few | Few | Many |
Price | Expensive | Almost not in circulation | Expensive as food | Cheap |
Like the precious product of silk thread, the image is that the job of lactic acid bacteria in the intestine is to produce a production extract like lactzyme.
The actual role of lactic acid bacteria in the intestine has not yet been fully elucidated, but it is a little different
from the silky relationship between silk moths.
It is known that the lactic acid bacteria that make up the intestinal flora pass information (called antigen presentation)
when the lactic acid bacteria themselves come into contact with the intestinal wall, and various reactions occur via
immune cells.
For this function, live bacteria and dead cells are sold as supplements. but We believe that most of the work of lactic
acid bacteria is actually to make silk, a production substance, that is absorbed through the intestinal wall.
Various functionalities of lactic acid bacteria have been verified at universities and research institutes in various
fields. but If many of them are due to lactic acid bacteria-producing extracts rather than the cells themselves, the
general view of lactic acid bacteria would be quite different.
Penicillin, a drug that is too famous as an antibiotic, is a mold-producing substance named penicillin.
Drinking a mold called penicillin does not cure the infection.
The business of selling Silk moths(probiotics) to people in need of silk and selling mulberry leaves (prebiotics) is
not wrong, but it doesn't seem to be an efficient method.