With the increasing amount of evidence linking certain disorders of the human body to a
disturbed gut microbiota, there is a growing interest for compounds that positively influence …

Together with proteins and fats, carbohydrates are one of the macronutrients in the human
diet. Digestible carbohydrates, such as starch, starch-based products, sucrose, lactose …

The diet provides carbohydrates that are non-digestible in the upper gut and are major
carbon and energy sources for the microbial community in the lower intestine, supporting a …

The human gut is heavily colonized by a community of microbiota, primarily bacteria, that
exists in a symbiotic relationship with the host and plays a critical role in maintaining host …

Aims The concept of using specific dietary components to selectively modulate the gut
microbiota to confer a health benefit, defined as prebiotics, originated in 1995. In 2018, a …

Bifidobacteria are considered as probiotics due to their role in promoting intestinal health,
including regulating intestinal flora, controlling glycolipid metabolism, anti-colitis effects …

Advances in technology and software have radically expanded the scope of metabolomics
studies and allow us to monitor a broad transect of central carbon metabolism in routine …

Inulin-type fructans (ITF) and arabinoxylan oligosaccharides (AXOS) are broken down to
different extents by various bifidobacterial strains present in the human colon. To date …

Probiotic gut bacteria employ specific metabolic pathways to degrade dietary carbohydrates
beyond the capabilities of their human host. Here, we report how individual commercial …

ABSTRACT A growing number of studies have indicated relations between the gut
microbiota and mental health. However, to date, there is a scarcity of microbiota studies in …