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SUBMITTER: Rosendale D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5178337 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rosendale Doug D Butts Christine A CA de Guzman Cloe Erika CE Maddox Ian S IS Martell Sheridan S McIntyre Lynn L Skinner Margot A MA Dinnan Hannah H Ansell Juliet J
PeerJ 20161220
The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that consuming manuka honey, which contains antimicrobial methylglyoxal, may affect the gut microbiota. We undertook a mouse feeding study to investigate whether dietary manuka honey supplementation altered microbial numbers and their production of organic acid products from carbohydrate fermentation, which are markers of gut microbiota function. The caecum of C57BL/6 mice fed a diet supplemented with antimicrobial UMF® 20+ manuka honey at 2.2 g/k ...[more]