Wheat-durum pasta added of inactivated B. animalis decreases glucose and total cholesterol levels and modulates gut microbiota ecology in healthy rats. mouse gut metagenome

This study aimed to investigate the effects of consumption of wheat-durum pasta added of Bifidobacterium animalis inactivated by gamma-irradiation (paraprobiotic) during 15 days on health parameters and gut microbiota of healthy rats. Twenty-one male rats were divided into three groups as follow control group, which received standard diet; pasta control group (PC), which received diet containing pasta; and paraprobiotic pasta group (PPBI), which received diet containing paraprobiotic pasta