Food & Function Blog

Issue 3 of Food & Function is now available ro read online.

The front cover this month features work by David Heber and co-workers from Los Angeles, USA. In their work they study the effects and side-effects of  xylooligosacharide, a prebiotic, on gastrointestinal microbiota.

Read the article in full – it’s free to access for the next six weeks:
Xylooligosaccharide increases bifidobacteria but not lactobacilli in human gut microbiota
Sydney M. Finegold, Zhaoping Li, Paula H. Summanen, Julia Downes, Gail Thames, Karen Corbett, Scot Dowd, Michael Krak and David Heber  
Food Funct., 2014, 5, 436-445, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60348B

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