Health benefit of vegetable/fruit juice-based diet: Role of microbiome.

ABSTRACT: The gut microbiota is an important contributor to human health. Vegetable/fruit juices provide polyphenols, oligosaccharides, fiber and nitrate (beet juice), which may induce a prebiotic-like effect. Juice-based diets are becoming popular. However, there is a lack of scientific evidence of their health benefits. It was our hypothesis that changes in the intestinal microbiota induced by a juice-based diet play an important role in their health benefits. Twenty healthy adults consumed only vegetable/fruit juices for 3 days followed by 14 days of customary diet. On day 4 we observed a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (p = 2.0E^-05), which was maintained until day 17 (p = 3.0E^-04). On day 4 the proportion of the phylum Firmicutes and Proteobacteria in sto

SUBMITTER: Henning SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5438379 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature