All About Fiber: Nutrition, Food Sources, And Far More
Butyrate has been shown to strengthen the gut’s resistance to pathogens, lower inflammation and build healthier cells lining the host’s intestines. This result has implications not only for customized nutrition approaches but is also relevant for animal studies in the nutrition field. The use of AIN93-based purified diets that include cellulose as the sole supply of fiber is typical practice in nutrition studies. These diets are valuable tools for the field, but their lack/low levels of dietary MACs could not…