Kefir Culture and Improved Metabolic Health

• Eastern European Fermented Foods: Nutritional Value, Functional Potential, and Cultural Heritage.

  • 2025-12-22
  • Review
  • Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 15(1)
  • • Corina-Aurelia Zugravu
    • Ciprian Constantin

  • PubMed: 41517094
  • DOI: 10.3390/foods15010028

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Metabolic Health

  • Low evidence

  Experimental studies describe the generation of ACE-inhibitory peptides, polyphenol biotransformation, and prebiotic or postbiotic metabolites with reported antioxidant, antihypertensive, immunomodulatory, and metabolic effects.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

• Human gut microbiome: Therapeutic opportunities for metabolic syndrome-Hype or hope?

  • 2023-09-28
  • Review
  • Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism 7(1)
  • • Angela Horvath
    • Kristina Zukauskaite
    • Olha Hazia
    • Irina Balazs
    • Vanessa Stadlbauer

  • PubMed: 37771199
  • DOI: 10.1002/edm2.436

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Metabolic Health

  • Low evidence

  there is clear evidence that microbiome modulation has the potential to influence metabolic diseases

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small