Prune juice has a mild laxative effect in adults with certain gastrointestinal symptoms

Nutrition Research

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 511-513

  Piirainen, Laura ^a,d   Peuhkuri, Katri ^b   Bäckström, Karin ^b   Korpela, Riitta ^b,c,d   Salminen, Seppo ^e  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b VALIO LTD   (Finland)

^c FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Constipation; Gastrointestinal symptoms; Human; Prune

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; LAXATIVE; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRUIT JUICE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INGESTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRUNE JUICE; PRUNUS;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 34547193644     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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