Effects of cereal, fruit and vegetable fibers on human fecal weight and transit time: A comprehensive review of intervention trials

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  de Vries, Jan ^a   Birkett, Anne ^b   Hulshof, Toine ^b   Verbeke, Kristin ^c   Gibes, Kernon ^b  

^a De Vries Nutrition Solutions Inc   (Netherlands)

^b KELLOGG COMPANY   (United States)

^c Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bowel function; Cereal ber; Dietary bers; Fecal weight; Fermentation; Fruit ber; Regularity; Transit time; Vegetable ber

Indexed keywords

ARABINOXYLAN; LIGNIN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; BARLEY; BARLEY BRAN; CEREAL; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIETARY FIBER; DIVERTICULOSIS; FECAL WEIGHT; FECES ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; OAT BRAN; REVIEW; RICE BRAN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VEGETABLE; WHEAT BRAN; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEFECATION; DIET; DIET THERAPY; FECES; FOOD GRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; INTESTINE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEFECATION; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; EDIBLE GRAIN; FECES; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINES; TIME FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84960094809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8030130     Document Type: Review

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