aglycone isoflavone miso

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Does anyone know where to buy miso paste with aglycone isoflavones?

The isoflavones are produced by the Nichimo Corp in Japan, but I

don't know what food manufacturers they sell them to. See the

research report below.

 

Miso Soup Inhibits Breast, Prostate Cancer: Nichimo

Jiji Press English News Service - July 14, 2003

 

 

Tokyo, July 14 (Jiji Press)--Nichimo Co. said Monday it has confirmed

in joint research with Harvard University of the United States that

fermented soybean extract inhibits the progress of breast and

prostate cancer.

 

Nichimo, a Japanese diversified fishery and foods-related company,

reported the findings at a U.S. cancer congress late last week.

 

Nichimo's findings come on the heels of a recent report by a Japanese

Health Ministry research unit that consumption of Japanese miso soup,

made of fermented soybeans, can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

 

The joint team found that the growth of experimentally cultured

cancer cells was substantially reduced when isoflavone, an

antibacterial component of the soybean extract, was applied.

 

The group used an enzyme to make aglycon, or sugar-free, isoflavones

to help absorption by the cells. Isoflavones are usually conjugated

with sugar, making absorption difficult.

 

According to Nichimo, Japanese miso, or soybean paste, contains

isoflavones in the form of aglycon, due to the workings of malt, but

isoflavones in tofu or natto, the two other traditional Japanese

foods made from soybeans, stay conjugated with sugar.

 

Nichimo has sold dietary supplements that contain aglycon isoflavones

since 2001.