A versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiber
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract – helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.
January 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: british, cell, cell-walls, common-gut, dietary-fibre, digestive, genetic, knife, main-component, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, swiss, swiss-army, the-digestive, the-genetic
