Table 2.

Concentrations of specific bacterial groups, detected by qPCR, in faeces of volunteers consuming the thylakoid supplement for 3 months compared to volunteers consuming the control supplement. Wilcoxon’s test was used to estimate statistical differences. Medians and interquartile ranges are reported

Bacterial taxa	Control		Control		P	Thylakoid		Thylakoid		P
	Before intervention		After three months			Before intervention		After three months
	Log 16S rRNA gene copies/g faeces		Log 16S rRNA gene copies/g faeces			Log 16S rRNA gene copies/g faeces		Log 16S rRNA gene copies/g faeces
	Median	Range	Median	Range		Median	Range	Median	Range
Total bacteria	11.0	10.8–11.2	10.8	10.6–11.0	0.464	10.9	10.8–11.1	11.2	11.0–11.4	0.034
Akkermansia muciniphila-like	8.7	7.8–10.2	9.1	7.7–9.6	0.850	9.9	8.8–10.5	9.6	8.9–10.3	0.744
Bacteroides fragilis group	8.7	8.3–9.2	9.2	8.4–9.2	0.252	9.1	8.8–9.6	9.5	9.2–9.9	0.002
Clostridium coccoides group	10.3	10.2–10.9	10.2	10.0–10.5	0.298	10.5	10.4–10.9	10.8	10.3–11.0	0.325
Clostridium leptum subgroup	10.5	10.0–10.6	10.4	9.6–10.6	0.298	10.6	10.1–10.8	10.6	10.3–10.8	0.865
Enterobacteriaceae	8.3	7.4–9.0	8.2	6.3–8.7	0.495	7.4	6.6–8.3	7.5	7.0–8.8	0.393
Lactobacillus	7.1	6.6–8.5	7.5	6.6–8.3	0.636	7.4	6.8–7.8	7.6	7.0–7.9	0.455

Significant p-values are highlighted in bold and italicized