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Gen-T Researcher in the University of Valencia discovers proteins in dental tartar that confirm that the global trade in exotic foods reached the Mediterranean almost 4,000 years ago

Gen-T Researcher in the University of Valencia discovers proteins in dental tartar that confirm that the global trade in exotic foods reached the Mediterranean almost 4,000 years ago



The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia reports on the latest work by Domingo C. Salazar, researcher of excellence Gen-T of the Generalitat at the University of Valencia. Salazar is one of the signatories of a work published in PNAS magazine that shows that long-distance trade in exotic species such as turmeric or banana reached the Mediterranean about 3,700 years ago, much earlier than previously believed. The study of ancient proteins preserved in the tartar of human teeth reveals that at the time, oriental species and culinary oils were already used.