{"id":82467,"date":"2026-04-27T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82467"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:00:01","slug":"dna-reveals-traces-of-bread-on-shroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/dna-reveals-traces-of-bread-on-shroud\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Reveals Traces Of Bread On Shroud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p>Researchers recently identified food DNA on the Shroud of Turin \u2014 a finding that suggests the burial cloth believed to have wrapped Jesus Christ may have been contaminated over time.\u00a0In a\u00a0preprint study\u00a0published in March on bioRxiv, a group of international researchers analyzed DNA traces from 1978 samples taken from the relic.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists identified plant traces by sequencing microscopic DNA fragments found in dust and fibers collected from the Shroud, rather than discovering visible food remains.\u00a0They found a host of different species, with\u00a0carrot and bread wheat\u00a0the most dominant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n<p>Carrot (Daucus carota) was the most prominent plant DNA signal, accounting for about 30.9% of identified plant sequences, and the study said the DNA was more similar to\u00a0cultivated carrot varieties.<\/p>\n<p>About 11.6% of identified plant sequences were assigned to Triticum aestivum, or bread wheat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777287601\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"DNA Reveals Traces Of Bread On Shroud\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: Researchers recently identified food DNA on the Shroud of Turin \u2014 a finding that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82468,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82467\/revisions\/82468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}