Journal
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages 322-329Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2018.03.023
Keywords
Plant sterols; Gut microbiota; In vitro fermentation; GC/MS; Bacterial DNA sequencing
Categories
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [AGL2012-39503-C02-01]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO [BES-2013-062705]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Due to the preventive effect that plant sterols could have in relation to colon cancer and the scarce information available on plant sterols-gut rnicrobiota interaction, we evaluate the sterols influence upon gut microbiota and viceversa. In vitro colonic fermentation using a residue from the in vitro digestion of a plant sterol-enriched beverage were used. Faecal sterols by GC-MS, and gut microbiota using DNA sequencing were determined. A higher plant sterols metabolism and lower for cholesterol in presence of plant sterols was occurred. Neutral plant sterols decreased and its metabolites increased during fermentation times. The global changes in microbial communities were associated to fermentation time regardless the sterol supplementation. Notwithstanding, plant sterols decreased the proportion of Erysipelotrichaceae species and increased the abundance of phylotypes associated with Eubacterium hallii. The study confirms a higher plant sterols metabolism against cholesterol by gut microbiota. Plant sterols could help to increase the beneficial species abundance.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available