What’s in the sandwich you are eating?

16 Oct 2024

by Cristina Sáez

For the first time, a European group of researchers have analyzed the microbiome of more than 2,500 different types of foods. The insights gained will help better identify good and bad ‘bugs’ and improve the quality and safety of existing products. Additionally, the research sheds light on the influence of food microbiome on our own gut microbiome and overall health.

Resistant starch is a highly fermentable fiber, although it’s considered an insoluble fiber. What is more interesting is the fact that the food source of resistant starch matters, as scientists show not all foods that are high in resistant starch drive identical changes in the gut microbiota functional diversity.

A decade studying the human microbiome

26 Jun 2017

by GMFH Editing Team

The main researchers behind those successful and ambitious projects attended the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit held in Paris, in March 2017, where we could interview them.

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