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Wheat Bran Stir-Frying Reshapes the Metabolome of Euryale Ferox Seeds and Predicts Enhanced Bioactive Potential for Spleen and Kidney Tonifying
Key takeaways
Scientists tested how cooking mung beans changes their chemicals in the test tube and predicted they might help kidneys, but no people or animals were studied yet. This is early lab work, not proof it works in humans.
Who did this work
Panpan Li (Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University) · Yaojia Zou (Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University) · 毛英豪 (Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University) · Fan Ye (Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University) · Tao Luo (Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University)
Source
Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-10
https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo16090669