The study suggests eating apples regularly, for a prolonged period of time, helps produce short-chain fatty acids that ensure a balance of microorganisms in the stomach, said microbiologist Andrea Wilcks of the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark in Lungby.
A diet rich in apples, and their fiber component pectin, also helped produce butyrate, an important fuel for the cells of the intestinal wall, Wilcks wrote in a recent issue of the journal BMC Microbiology.
The rats were put on a diet rich in whole apples, apple juice, apple puree and crushed apple fiber. The microbial content of their digestive system then was analyzed to see if a diet rich in pectin had an impact on "friendly" bacteria in the stomach, the study's co-author, Tine Rask Licht, said in a release Tuesday.
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Balanced Diet Plan
Yea, apple is a king of fruit, we get all essential component from them. if all should make a healthy balanced diet plan with apple then it's good. I agree completely! Thanks to share such information.
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