Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Improved Lactose Tolerance

• Comparative genomic and phenotypic analysis of potential beneficial properties of Bifidobacterium adolescentis.

  • 2025-11-25
  • mSphere 10(11)
  • • Mallory J Van Haute
    • Katherine Chacón-Vargas
    • Chloe M Christensen
    • Shara R P Yumul
    • Fatimah F Abdulaali
    • Andrew K Benson
    • Robert Hutkins
    • Thomas A Auchtung

  • PubMed: 41186414
  • DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00673-25

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Lactose Tolerance

  • Low evidence

  The ability to metabolize lactose (all strains; 2-232 β-galactosidase Miller units) ... was common

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small