Lactobacillus fermentum and Increased Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

• Lactobacillus fermentum supplementation modulates jejunal microbiota, metabolome, and morphology in yaks under high-energy feeding.

  • 2026-02-12
  • RCT
  • Animal microbiome 8(1)
  • • Qinran Yu
    • Chun Huang
    • Pengjia Bao
    • Ning Li
    • Minghao Zhang
    • Tong Wang
    • Chaofan Ma
    • Jingying Deng
    • Xinyu Cao
    • Jianlei Jia
    • Ping Yan

  • PubMed: 41680945
  • DOI: 10.1186/s42523-025-00479-9

  5 Insights on

  • Increased Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

  • High evidence

  MEJ yaks exhibited higher abundance of Paeniclostridium, Romboutsia and Treponema (P < 0.05) and markedly increased short-chain fatty acids concentrations (P < 0.001).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

• Ganoderma lucidum dietary fiber and lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 alleviate constipation via regulation of gut barrier and microbiota.

  • 2025-12
  • International journal of biological macromolecules 333
  • • Caihong Wang
    • Qianyang Zhang
    • Chaozhi Wei
    • Yuanxiang Jin

  • PubMed: 41232882
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.149010

  4 Insights on

  • Increased Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  augmenting the generation of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)-with acetic acid, propionic acid, and butyric acid as the primary elevated metabolites.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small