Kiwifruit fermentation drives positive gut microbial and metabolic changes irrespective of initial microbiota composition
Blatchford P, Stoklosinski H, Walton G, Swann J, Gibson G, Gearry R, Ansell J · Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre · 2015 July
DOI 10.1016/j.bcdf.2015.07.001
Objective
To determine the effect of whole kiwifruit components that escape gastric and small intestinal digestion on the colonic microbiota and metabolites in an in vitro batch culture gut model.
Conclusions
In summary, we have shown that kiwifruit non-digestible polysaccharides have a number of effects on gut microbial ecology.
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