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SUBMITTER: Jewell DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265048 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jewell Dennis E DE Jackson Matthew I MI Cochrane Chun-Yen CY Badri Dayakar V DV
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20220627 13
Consumption of fiber in its different forms can result in positive health effects. Prior studies in dogs found that addition of a fiber bundle (composed of pecan shells, flax seed, and powders of cranberry, citrus, and beet) to food resulted in a shift in fecal bacterial metabolism from proteolysis to saccharolysis. The present study evaluated the changes in fecal metabolites and microbiota in healthy cats following the consumption of this fiber bundle. Following a 28-day pre-feed period, 56 hea ...[more]