The Claim
Daily consumption of honey-sweetened yogurt for four weeks in healthy postmenopausal women has no significant effect on fecal short-chain fatty acid concentrations.
What the research says
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In healthy postmenopausal women, eating honey-sweetened yogurt every day for four weeks does not change the levels of short-chain fatty acids in the stool.
See the scientific wording
In healthy postmenopausal women, daily consumption of honey-sweetened yogurt for four weeks did not significantly alter fecal short-chain fatty acid concentrations despite the presence of honey-derived oligosaccharides, suggesting these compounds did not act as prebiotics in this context.
The sugars in honey do not get broken down by gut bacteria in the colon, so no acidic byproducts are made, and the levels of these byproducts in stool stay the same.
What the research says
1 studyEven though honey has stuff that might feed good gut bacteria, eating honey-sweetened yogurt for four weeks didn’t increase the bacterial byproducts in the stool of postmenopausal women—so those honey compounds didn’t work as prebiotics here.
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