Editing Miso (section)

==Nutrition and health==
Claims that miso is high in [[Vitamin B12|vitamin B<sub>12</sub>]] have been contradicted in some studies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822090753/http://www.vegsoc.org/info/b12.html |archive-date=August 22, 2008 |title=Vitamin B12 |website=The Vegetarian Society |publisher=The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom Limited |access-date=December 28, 2010 }}</ref>

Some experts suggest that miso is a source of ''[[Lactobacillus acidophilus]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ehrlich |first=Steven D. |url=http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/lactobacillus-acidophilus |title=Lactobacillus acidophilus |publisher=University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) |date=2011-05-24 |access-date=2013-11-20}}</ref> Miso is relatively high in salt which could contribute to increased blood pressure in the small percentage of the population with sodium-sensitive [[prehypertension]] or [[hypertension]]. Several studies using salt-sensitive hypertensive models and analyzing long-term intake have suggested that miso lessens salt's effects on blood pressure.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ito|first=Koji|date=2020-08-31|title=Review of the health benefits of habitual consumption of miso soup: focus on the effects on sympathetic nerve activity, blood pressure, and heart rate|journal=Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine|volume=25|issue=1|pages=45|doi=10.1186/s12199-020-00883-4|issn=1347-4715|pmc=7461326|pmid=32867671 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kondo|first1=Hiroaki|last2=Sakuyama Tomari|first2=Hiroe|last3=Yamakawa|first3=Shoko|last4=Kitagawa|first4=Manabu|last5=Yamada|first5=Minami|last6=Itou|first6=Seiki|last7=Yamamoto|first7=Tetsuro|last8=Uehara|first8=Yoshio|date=November 2019|title=Long-term intake of miso soup decreases nighttime blood pressure in subjects with high-normal blood pressure or stage I hypertension|journal=Hypertension Research|language=en|volume=42|issue=11|pages=1757–1767|doi=10.1038/s41440-019-0304-9|pmid=31371810|pmc=8076009|issn=1348-4214}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Du|first1=Dong Dong|last2=Yoshinaga|first2=Mariko|last3=Sonoda|first3=Masaru|last4=Kawakubo|first4=Kiyoshi|last5=Uehara|first5=Yoshio|date=2014|title=Blood pressure reduction by Japanese traditional Miso is associated with increased diuresis and natriuresis through dopamine system in Dahl salt-sensitive rats|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24047246/|journal=Clinical and Experimental Hypertension|volume=36|issue=5|pages=359–366|doi=10.3109/10641963.2013.827702|issn=1525-6006|pmid=24047246|s2cid=207516579}}</ref>