Table 3. Summary of included studies: animal studies.

The Table was organized by date of publication from the most recent to the oldest. All the papers used the 16s rRNA method to amplify the variants of bacteria in the gut microbiome. RCT: Randomized Clinical Trial; CRC: Colorectal Cancer; OGTT: Oral Glucose Tolerance Test; BIA: Bioimpedance Analysis; ENL: enterolactone; PS: Plant Sterol; HFD: High Fat Diet; CF: Cystic Fibrosis; FVC: Fruit and Vegetable Concentrate; MDA: malondialdehyde; TNF: tumor necrosis factor; MCP: monocyte chemoattractant protein; IL-6: interleukin; HFS: High Fat Sucrose; SCFA: Short Chain Fatty Acid.