Journal
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 663-674Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2017.02.002
Keywords
Chickpea; Pulse; Microbiota; SCFAs; Gut barrier integrity
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Pulse Science Cluster [AIP-CL03]
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Pulses are rich in fermentable fibre and phenolic compounds that have the potential to modify baseline function within the gut microenvironment (microbiota and epithelial barrier), thereby mitigating gut associated diseases. The objective was to assess the gut health promoting effects of dietary chickpea in C57BL/6 mice consuming a 20% cooked chickpea flour diet (CK) or an isocaloric control diet for 3 weeks. Gut health was enhanced by CK including (i) colon crypt mucus content and mucin mRNA expression, (ii) crypt length, proliferation, and epithelial barrier junctional components expression, (iii) anti-microbial defenses, and (iv) altered cecal and fecal microbiota community structure (e.g. increased Prevotella) with enhanced metagenomic functions (e.g. increased flavonoid biosynthesis, butanoate metabolism), and microbial activity (increased short chain fatty acid production). Collectively, CM modulated the baseline function of the colonic microenvironment (microbiome and epithelial barrier), thereby priming colonic function such that the severity of gut-associated diseases could be mitigated. Crown Copyright (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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