title: Prebiotic nut compounds and human microbiota.
abstract: Nut consumption is clearly related to human health outcomes. Its beneficial effects have been mainly attributed to nut fatty acid profiles and content of vegetable protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, phytosterols and phenolics. However, in this review we focus on the prebiotics properties in humans of the non-bioaccessible material of nuts (polymerized polyphenols and polysaccharides), which provides substrates for the human gut microbiota and on the formation of new bioactive metabolites and the absorption of that may partly explain the health benefits of nut consumption.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Nutrition and Food Science-XARTA-INSA , School of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain.|b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN) , Instituto de Salud Carlos III , Madrid , Spain.
authors.forename: Rosa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lamuel-Raventos
authors.affiliation: c Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Nutrition , Columbia University , New York , New York , USA.
authors.forename: Marie-Pierre St
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Onge
mesh_terms: D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000032:analysis; D000069196:Gastrointestinal Microbiome / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009753:Nutritive Value; D009754:Nuts / Q000737:chemistry*; D059808:Polyphenols; D056692:Prebiotics / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004043:Dietary Fiber; D059808:Polyphenols; D056692:Prebiotics
keywords: Nuts; butyrate; fiber; polyphenols; polysaccharides; urolithins; valerolactones