The Role of Carbohydrate Intake on the Gut Microbiome: A Weight of Evidence Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: Carbohydrates are the most important source of nutritional energy for the human body. Carbohydrate digestion, metabolism, and their role in the gut microbiota modulation are the focus of multiple studies. The objective of this weight of evidence systematic review is to investigate the potential relationship between ingested carbohydrates and the gut microbiota composition at different taxonomic levels. (2) Methods: Weight of evidence and information value techniques were used to evaluate the relationship between dietary carbohydrates and the relative abundance of different bacterial taxa in the gut microbiota. (3) Results: The obtained results show that the types of carbohydrates that have a high information value are: soluble fiber with Bacteroides increase, insolub

SUBMITTER: Mora-Flores LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10385781 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature