Bifidobacterium breve MAK40B22B and Reduced Faecal pH

• Cell-free whey from milk fermented with Bifidobacterium breve C50 used to modify the colonic microflora of healthy subjects.

  • 1998-05
  • Clinical Trial · n = 10
  • Journal of Dairy Science 81(5)
  • • M. Romond
    • Assia Ais
    • F. Guillemot
    • Rachid Bounouader
    • A. Cortot
    • C. Romond

  • PubMed: 9621224
  • DOI: 10.3168/JDS.S0022-0302(98)75683-8

  13 Insights on

  • Reduced Faecal pH

  • Moderate evidence

  Fecal pH was reduced from 7.1 +/- 0.2 to 6.6 +/- 0.3 after intake of whey that had been fermented with Bif. breve.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small