Black Tea and Improved Gut Microbiota Diversity

• Tea Compounds and the Gut Microbiome: Findings from Trials and Mechanistic Studies.

  • 2019-10-03
  • Systematic Review
  • Nutrients 11(10)
  • • Timothy Bond
    • Emma Derbyshire

  • PubMed: 31623411
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu11102364

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Gut Microbiota Diversity

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Mechanistic studies also show promise suggesting that black, oolong, Pu-erh and Fuzhuan teas (microbially fermented 'dark tea') can modulate microbial diversity and the ratio of Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes