Table 10.

Pearson correlations between mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides and alpha diversity in diet types.

		Overall (n = 205)		WD (n = 50)		Flex (n = 52)		VG (n = 51)		VN (n = 52)
	Alpha Diversity	r	p-Value	r	p-Value	r	p-Value	r	p-Value	r	p-Value
Mono-saccharides	Shannon Entropy	0.08	0.275	0.36	0.014	0.28	0.049	0.18	0.208	−0.20	0.150
	Pielou Evenness	0.03	0.637	0.34	0.023	0.37	0.007	0.03	0.823	−0.26	0.062
	Faith PD	0.06	0.382	0.28	0.063	0.09	0.521	0.32	0.022	−0.12	0.391
Di-saccharides	Shannon Entropy	0.10	0.146	0.17	0.278	0.13	0.368	0.14	0.330	−0.35	0.010
	Pielou Evenness	0.08	0.239	0.12	0.427	0.18	0.193	0.13	0.369	−0.26	0.061
	Faith PD	0.08	0.232	0.20	0.182	0.05	0.706	0.13	0.370	−0.32	0.018
Oligo-saccharides (non-absorbable)	Shannon Entropy	−0.16	0.020	−0.22	0.133	−0.04	0.776	−0.14	0.333	−0.13	0.343
	Pielou Evenness	−0.05	0.475	−0.23	0.105	0.10	0.473	0.06	0.683	−0.05	0.718
	Faith PD	−0.16	0.026	−0.17	0.239	−0.21	0.136	−0.24	0.088	0.03	0.825
Oligo-saccharides (absorbable)	Shannon Entropy	−6 × 10−4	0.993	0.10	0.476	−0.14	0.328	0.08	0.601	−0.17	0.220
	Pielou Evenness	−0.06	0.362	0.08	0.597	−0.08	0.592	0.20	0.158	−0.003	0.982
	Faith PD	−0.02	0.796	0.17	0.235	−0.12	0.407	−0.06	0.660	−0.18	0.189

WD = Western Diet; Flex = Flexitarian; VG = Vegetarian; VN = Vegan; Faith PD = Faiths‘s phylogenetic diversity. Significance levels: p < 0.05, significant; p < 0.01, highly significant.