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Fiber and plants

How much fiber and how many plant foods people eat.

2 studies · newest 2021
New: Bolte 2021, 1,425 people
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What's here so far

No field note has been written for fiber and plants yet, so this page doesn't describe what studies found. It lists the 2 studies with results for fiber and plants microbe by microbe, which a field note will draw on.

Fiber and plants can loosen or firm stools, and stool form and transit go with differences in gut microbes on their own.

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Who's been studied

WhereNetherlands · US
How many2 studies · 1,461 people
HowIncluding a trial
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The studies

2020202220242026BolteWastyk
● measured once■ followed the same people▲ a trialsize = people
Long-term dietary patterns are associated with pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory features of the gut microbiome Gut · 2021 · Bolte 2021 · PubMed ↗ 1,425 people · 2 cohorts · Netherlands
Each person measured once · Shotgun sequencing
Per-microbe tables open · CC BY 4.0
Competing interests Some authors consulted for, or received grants or speaker fees from, pharmaceutical companies (Takeda, Johnson and Johnson, AbbVie, MSD, Olympus, AstraZeneca, Janssen, Pfizer). None from the food industry.
Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status Cell · 2021 · Wastyk 2021 · PubMed ↗ 36 people · Healthy adults on two diets, Stanford · US
A trial · 16S and shotgun sequencing
Cited in our own words · Author manuscript under the publisher's terms
Registered at ClinicalTrials.gov · NCT03275662 ↗
Competing interests Two authors founded and hold shares in Interface Biosciences; one founded, holds shares in and advises January AI and Novome Biotechnologies.