Could a bread with probiotics help to manage asthma?

USP researcher Ana Paula Carvalho Thiers Calazans (left) making the bread dough enriched with microcapsules of S. cerevisiae UFMG A-905 (bottom right). — Agência FAPESP

Brazilian researchers have developed functional bread with the potential to prevent asthma – a respiratory disorder responsible for some 350,000 hospitalisations per year in the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), the nation’s public healthcare network.

The formulation, for which a patent application has been filed in Brazil, is described in an article published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition.