Potato (Solanum) a Natural Antibacterial Functional Food

Infectious diseases are a class of conditions caused by the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi.

Bacteria is a type of biological cell consisted of a single cell with a simple internal structure.

Out of millions of bacteria presented in this world, only a hundred of them cause infectious diseases. And, most bacteria that cause large-scale disease in human history may be closed to extinction.
In contrast to general belief, most bacteria live as independent cells, they share the basic characteristics of all living things, they breathe, metabolize, produce waste, and maintain a membrane potential.

However, bacteria do not process a nucleus in which their DNA is separated from the rest of the cell.

In the differentiation of bacteria, one must know that not all bacteria are bad. Some bacteria found in the digestive tract have been found to aid digestion and prevent the imbalance of bad and good bacteria. In other words, most bacteria are harmless.

The most common diseases caused by bacteria include strep throat, urinary tract infections, and tuberculosis.

Infection occurs when the bacteria successfully invade the body and start to multiply. Most cases of infectious diseases caused by bacteria are treated with antibiotics.

And, most cases of infectious disease are transmitted by airborne you can get sick if you breathe into the air that carries infectious bacteria in air particles, vector-borne if you are stunk by the insect that the bacteria and vehicle-borne if you are eating food or carrying the materials contaminated by the bacteria.

Potato is a genus Solanum, belongs to the family Solanaceae. It is a good source of protein and according to the statistic, the annual diet of an average global citizen is about 33 kg (72.6 Lbs) of potato. It now is growing worldwide in a suitable climate for commercial profits and health benefits, thus its consumption is extremely variable and rapidly changing.

On finding a potential plant that processes anti-infectious property, researchers evaluated the antibacterial and cytotoxic activity of a new experimental tooth based on Solanum tuberosum "Tocosh" on the cell lines 3T3 and DU145.

According to the tested analysis
* Solanum tuberosum (toosh) was not cytotoxic because it only had one CC50 at the concentration of 0.26927 mg/mL and 0.26845 mg/mL for the cell lines 3T3 and DU145, respectively.

* However, tocosh toothpaste (TD) has an antibacterial effect against S. aureus and S. mutans.

In other words, Solanum tuberosum showed no effects to induce cell death in the tested cancer cell lines but exerted a strong activity against certain oral bacterial strains.

Collectively, researchers said, "This research has great potential for clinical use because this new dentifrice has antimicrobial activity against different oral germs".

Taken altogether, potatoes may be considered a functional food for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.


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Sources
(1) Development of New Experimental Dentifrice of Peruvian Solanum tuberosum (Tocosh) Fermented by Water Stress: Antibacterial and Cytotoxic Activity by Mayta-Tovalino F1, Sedano-Balbin G2, Romero-Tapia P2, Alvítez-Temoche D3, Álvarez-Paucar M4, Gálvez-Calla L5, Sacsaquispe-Contreras S. (PubMed)