Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Increased Antioxidant Activity

• A Single Key for Many Doors? Unlocking the Bio-chemical Potential of Lactobacillus bulgaricus Metabolic Postbiotic.

  • 2025-08-14
  • Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins 18(2)
  • • Seyed Sadeq Mousavi Ghahfarrokhi
    • Ehsan Khafipour
    • Shahram Mahmoudi
    • Angila Ataei-Pirkooh
    • Atefeh Kachooei
    • Arsalan Bateni Shalmani
    • Nasrin Samadi
    • Mohammad Reza Fazeli

  • PubMed: 40804510
  • DOI: 10.1007/s12602-025-10700-5

  2 Insights on

  • Increased Antioxidant Activity

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Animal Study

  The postbiotic showed... moderate antioxidant properties with a DPPH IC50 of 2.75 mg/mL, which was significantly weaker than quercetin.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes