{"id":117231,"date":"2020-12-16T23:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chemical-compounds-in-foods-can-inhibit-a-key-sars-cov-2-enzyme"},"modified":"2020-12-16T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:22:51","slug":"chemical-compounds-in-foods-can-inhibit-a-key-sars-cov-2-enzyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chemical-compounds-in-foods-can-inhibit-a-key-sars-cov-2-enzyme","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Compounds in Foods Can Inhibit a Key SARS-CoV-2 Enzyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-compounds-in-foods-can-inhibit-a-key-sars-cov-2-enzyme.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cGreen tea has five tested chemical compounds that bind to different sites in the pocket on Mpro, essentially overwhelming it to inhibit its function,\u201d Xie said. \u201cMuscadine grapes contain these inhibitory chemicals in their skins and seeds. Plants use these compounds to protect themselves, so it is not surprising that plant leaves and skins contain these beneficial compounds.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glad I picked up a refill on my resveratrol this week!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Green tea, muscadine grape and dark chocolate chemical compounds inhibit an important SARS-CoV-2 enzyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u201cGreen tea has five tested chemical compounds that bind to different sites in the pocket on Mpro, essentially overwhelming it to inhibit its function,\u201d Xie said. \u201cMuscadine grapes contain these inhibitory chemicals in their skins and seeds. Plants use these compounds to protect themselves, so it is not surprising that plant leaves and skins contain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}