North Carolina: Green tea, grapefruit and dark chocolate have been found to contain a special chemical that prevents the spread of another but dangerous strain of the corona virus, the stork co-to virus.
The virus contains a type of enzyme called MPR. Because of the MPRO, the virus spreads rapidly. But green tea and a kind of musk grape contain a chemical that prevents the virus from multiplying.
The enzyme that spreads the corona virus is a kind of protease and it is the cause of both good and evil, that is, it is also necessary for health, so viruses also rely on them to increase their numbers. Now, DU Xie and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina say that if the SARS co-virus virus is somehow controlled, the growing number of viruses will stop.
The research is supported by laboratory simulations as well as computer simulations. The central protease of this virus plays an important role in the spread of the virus. Somehow this yeast kills the virus itself. When a green tea chemical was put on the virus in the lab, it stuck to the MPRO and prevented it from doing anything.
Although this feature is found in grapes and dark chocolate, the feature of green tea is different because it contains five chemicals that destroy MPR. The study is published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science and is supported by the US Department of Agriculture.