Nutritional value of hops?

Question

Since beers are made with hops, what nutritional value do those hop give to a human body when beer is consumed?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '15 at 12:25

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None, the hops are added to provide a bitter flavour and because they have an antibiotic property that favours yeast over other microorganisms.

The hops are filtered out in the brewing process so there is no calorific gain.

In a typical UK beer recipe the hops are typically 1% of the dry ingredients.

answered Oct 10 '15 at 12:25

user23614

Do you have any scientific references? – jalynn2 Oct 15 '15 at 17:27
I don't have any literature on it I just asked a friend with a degree in brewing. – user23614 Oct 16 '15 at 08:34

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