Interactions Between Food and Gut Microbiota: Impact on Human Health.

Understanding the relationship between food and the gut microbiota, their interactions, and how each modulates the other is critical for successful promotion of human health. This review seeks to summarize ( a) the current knowledge on the effects of food and food components on gut microbiota and ( b) the association between gut microbiota, consumption of food, and food bioactive components and the resulting beneficial health outcomes. Our goal is to provide state-of-the-art information on food and gut microbiota interactions and to stimulate discussions and research approaches that will move the field forward.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

• Publication date

  2019-03-25

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1146/annurev-food-032818-121303PMID 30908952
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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