Kiwi and Reduced Straining

• Habitual Green Kiwifruit Consumption Is Associated with a Reduction in Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms: A Systematic Scoping Review.

  • 2022-05
  • Systematic Review · n = 661
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 13(3)
  • • Simone B Bayer
    • Chris M Frampton
    • Richard B Gearry
    • Giovanni Barbara

  • PubMed: 35266507
  • DOI: 10.1093/advances/nmac025

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Straining

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Pooled GSRS outcome analysis indicates ... -0.33 (95% CI: -0.52, -0.15; Z = -3.5) in indigestion scores

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Two Gold Kiwifruit Daily for Effective Treatment of Constipation in Adults-A Randomized Clinical Trial.

  • 2022-10-06
  • RCT
  • Nutrients 14(19)
  • • Simone B Bayer
    • Phoebe Heenan
    • Chris Frampton
    • Catherine L Wall
    • Lynley N Drummond
    • Nicole C Roy
    • Richard B Gearry

  • PubMed: 36235798
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu14194146

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Straining

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  Two gold kiwifruit decreased straining (p = 0.021).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2/day