Eating broccoli and bananas could help fight Crohn’s disease British scientists say in the journal Gut.
Chrohn’s disease leads to pain bleeding and diarrhoea.
It is caused by an excess of a “sticky” type of E. coli that weakens the ability to fight off intestinal bacteria and leads to inflammation.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool England tested laboratory-grown cells and Crohn’s patient tissue samples and found that broccoli and plantain a large type of banana contain a soluble fiber that helps prevent the sticky E. coli from penetrating the lining of the intestine.