Figure 7.

Effect of baobab fruit pulp powder (BP) fermentation on bacterial metabolic parameters during 48 h fecal batch incubations of three healthy adults compared to a ‘no substrate control’ control and three different types of inulin (IN1, IN2, IN3) as tested by Van den Abbeele et al. [25]. BP data were obtained as disclosed in this study. BP was administered at ~2.6 g fiber/L, while inulin was tested at 5 g/L. Average differences between treated and ‘no substrate control’ incubations for three donors were calculated for each parameter. Subsequently, all values were standardized within each parameter to enable comparisons across parameters on a single scale.