Hall, Deborah A.
Voigt, Robin M.
Cantu-Jungles, Thaisa M.
Hamaker, Bruce https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-942X
Engen, Phillip A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-5174
Shaikh, Maliha
Raeisi, Shohreh
Green, Stefan J.
Naqib, Ankur
Forsyth, Christopher B.
Chen, Tingting https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5191-8784
Manfready, Richard
Ouyang, Bichun
Rasmussen, Heather E.
Sedghi, Shahriar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2271-5931
Goetz, Christopher G.
Keshavarzian, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7969-3369
Article History
Received: 20 February 2022
Accepted: 2 February 2023
First Online: 18 February 2023
Competing interests
: The prebiotic bar was provided by BetterBiotics Inc which is co-owned by Drs. Keshavarzian, Hamaker, and Sedghi. A provisional patent is pending for the prebiotic mixture used in the bar (Patent Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation, Inventors: Drs. Hamaker, Cantu-Jungles, Keshavarzian, Application Number: 69548-02, Status: Pending, Patent covers the use of prebiotics to improve health). Drs. Keshavarzian, Hamaker, Sedghi, and Cantu-Jungles were not involved in subject recruitment, subject assessments, or statistical analysis of the data. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.