Research has found that consuming homemade soups can help fight against malaria, this is because soup recipes have anti-malarial properties present in them. “Malaria kills more than 400,000 people per year and infects more than 200 million; research was conducted in London in which the school children tested their family soup broths for activity against the malaria parasite, for a study which was published in the Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
The team incubated filtered soup extracts for 72 hours with different P. falciparum cultures to see if the soups would stop the growth of the parasites, and according to the study five of the broths were able to curb the growth of the parasite in its disease-causing stage by more than 50 percent. The other four other broths were more than 50 percent effective at blocking the ability of the parasites to mature to a form that infects mosquitoes, potentially blocking the process of transmission.