Chicory inulin does not increase stool weight or speed up intestinal transit time in healthy male subjects

Food and Function

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-77

  Slavin, Joanne ^a   Feirtag, Joellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL FERMENTATIONS; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; GLUCURONIDASE; HUMAN SUBJECTS; ICE CREAMS; LACTOBACILLUS SPECIES; MINIMAL EFFECTS; PREBIOTICS; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; SPEED-UPS; TRANSIT TIME;

AMMONIA; FATTY ACIDS; ICE CONTROL; MICROORGANISMS; NUTRITION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHORIUM INTYBUS; LACTOBACILLUS;

AMMONIA; INULIN; PREBIOTIC AGENT; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; CHICORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEFECATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; ICE CREAM; INTESTINE; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AMMONIA; CHICORY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEFECATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ICE CREAM; INTESTINES; INULIN; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREBIOTICS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79952028716     PISSN: 20426496     EISSN: 2042650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0fo00101e     Document Type: Article

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