Tim Spector, the professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London who runs the Zoe nutrition app, wrote a piece in the Independent this month listing the fermented foods he thinks are worth eating regularly.
B Vitamins & Health
Marmite's B vitamin content: B1, B2, B3, B9, B12, their roles in health, and how Marmite supports wellbeing.
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If you are vegan, Marmite is doing real work
If you are vegan, your single hardest nutrient is vitamin B12. It is found almost exclusively in animal products, and it does real work: nerve function, red blood cell production, DNA synthesis.
Is Marmite brain food? What the 2017 York study really found
In 2017 the headlines said Marmite was good for your brain. The actual University of York study was 28 people, a teaspoon a day, and a measurable change in brain activity the press cheerfully oversold. What the research did and did not show.
Marmite does not, sadly, repel mosquitoes
It goes like this. The B vitamins in Marmite, particularly thiamine (B1), are excreted through the skin in small amounts. Mosquitoes find the smell of thiamine unattractive. Therefore, eating Marmite makes you a less appealing target.
Lucy Wills, Marmite, and the discovery of folic acid
Lucy Wills was an English physician who graduated from Cambridge in 1928 and went to work at the Haffkine Institute in Bombay in the early 1930s. She was particularly interested in a severe and often fatal anaemia affecting pregnant women in the Bombay textile mills. The condition was puzzling.
For bite free travelling, eat Marmite
Mosquitoes hate Marmite. Well, there's a surprise. If you want to stay bite free on your next rip abroad, health experts are now telling us that Marmite holds the key.
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