研究人员发现,在食用海带量居日本首位的冲渑县,癌症死亡率一直是日本最低的。那么,是海带中什么成分,具有抑制癌细胞生长作用的呢?经过日本宝酒株式会社生物研究所研究人员的十年努力,现在已经证实,海带中一种名叫“U—岩藻多糖”的物质,能够诱导癌细胞自杀。 The researchers found that the cancer death rate has been the lowest in Japan in the Okinawa Prefecture where the amount of kelp in Japan ranks first. What is the composition of the kelp, which has the effect of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells? After ten years of hard work by researchers at the Japan Institute of Biotechnology, it has now been confirmed that one of the kelp is called U-fucoidan. The substance can induce cancer cells to commit suicide.