A study published in eBioMedicine found that adding a cup of beans to the diet improves the gut microbiome and regulates host markers associated with metabolic obesity and colorectal cancer. The study focused on obese surveillance patients with a history of colorectal neoplasia and found that adding navy beans to the diet led to an increase in diversity and shifts in multiple bacteria indicative of prebiotic efficacy on intervention. The study also observed changes in nutrient and microbiome-derived metabolites in the circulating metabolome. The researchers concluded that adding navy beans to the diet is a safe and scalable dietary strategy to modulate the gut microbiome of high-risk patients.
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Beans beneficial for patients with history of colorectal neoplasia
