An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - Inter-Relationship Between Apple Consumption, the Gut Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Reduction

Diet-Microbe Interactions in the Gut: Effects on Human Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 173-194

  Koutsos, Athanasios ^a,b   Lovegrove, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apples; Blood lipids; Cardiovascular disease; CVD; Fiber; Fruit; Gut microbiota; Juice; Pectin; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930964799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407825-3.00012-5     Document Type: Chapter

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