PRJNA545727
Prebiotic Potential of Culinary Spices Used to Support Digestion and Bioabsorption
We appliedin vitro anaerobic cultivation of human fecal microbiota followed by 16S rRNA sequencing to study the modulatory effects of 4culinary spices: Curcuma longa (turmeric), Zingiber officinale (ginger), Piper longum(pipli or long pepper), and Piper nigrum(blackpepper). All herbs analyzed possessed substantial power tomodulate fecal bacterial communities to include potential prebiotic andbeneficial repressive effects.