Fig. 1.

Effect of pistachio diet on fecal microbiota population in healthy and diabetic animals at 0 and 4th week of pistachio supplementation. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Data with different superscript letters are significantly different p < 0.05, according to the post hoc ANOVA statistical analysis. TAC: total aerobic counts, CD: healthy animals that received the control diet, PD: healthy animals that received the pistachio diet, DCD: diabetic animals that received the control diet, DPD: diabetic animals that received the pistachio diet. ^ap < 0.05 vs timepoint 0 of the same sample, ^bp < 0.05 PD vs CD, ^cp < 0.05 DPD vs DCD, ^dp < 0.05 CD vs DCD.