yacon root and Improved Bowel Movement Frequency

• Yacon root is a functional food beneficial for human health: a meta-analysis of clinical trials.

  • 2025-12-11
  • Systematic Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Ling-Hui Pan
    • Zhong-Wei Yao
    • Wei-Feng Hu
    • Hui-Tian Jia
    • Wen-Lu Ren
    • Pan-Pan Wang
    • Su-Ping Ling
    • He Zhu

  • PubMed: 41459090
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1739768

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Bowel Movement Frequency

  • High evidence

  facilitated defecation [SMD = 4.03, 95% CI (0.54, 7.52)]

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes