Research Article

Prebiotic Potential of Culinary Spices Used to Support Digestion and Bioabsorption

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Herb induced modulatory effects. (a) PCoA of nervine herbs. Bray-Curtis PCoA beta-diversity plots of communities observed in C=control, Tur=Turmeric, Blp=Black pepper, Gin=Ginger, Pip=Pipli. (b) Modulatory capacity of nervine medicinal herbs. Average fold change of taxa comparing herb-supplemented to control cultures. Zeros were replaced with eāˆ’6 to permit minimum fold-change values to be calculated. (c) Family representation. Relative abundance of bacterial families in herb-supplemented cultures.

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