Table 1.
Clinical studies evaluating effects of selected foods and food components on H. pylori and gastric symptoms.
| FOOD PRODUCTS1 | PRIMARY REFERENCE
|
REVIEW3 | META-ANALYSIS4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EFFECT2 | ||||
| POSITIVE | NEGATIVE | |||
| Bee (Apis mellifera) Products | ||||
| Manuka honey | 59 | |||
| Probiotics | ||||
| (general) | 60 | 61 | 62 | 61 |
| Lactobacilli | 63 | 64 | ||
| Bifidobacterium bifidum | 65 | |||
| Saccharomyces boulardii | 66 | 66 | ||
| Fermented milk based- | 67 | 68 | 69 | |
| Dairy Products | ||||
| Lactoferrin | 70,71 | 72,73 | ||
| Vegetables | ||||
| Broccoli sprouts | 46,75,120 | |||
| Broccoli | 76 | 77 | ||
| Garlic | 78 | |||
| Pepper (red; capsaicin) | 78,79 | |||
| Fruits | ||||
| Cranberry | 80 | 81 | ||
| Oils | ||||
| Blackcurrant Seed- | 82 | |||
| Fish- | 82 | 83 | ||
| Essential Oils | ||||
| Hericium erinaceus (fungus) | 84 | |||
| Herbs, Spices, and Other Plants | ||||
| Mastic Gum & Resin | 85 | 86 | ||
| Cinnamon | 87 | 4,56 | ||
1
Foods, food products, or extracts of foods or plants used for food;
2
Outcome of clinical trial, as reported;
3
Reviews;
4
Meta-analyses of multiple clinical trials.