ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2025
Fibre: The Forgotten Carbohydrate in Sports Nutrition Recommendations.
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- The performance gut: a key to optimizing performance in high-level athletes: a systematic scoping review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- Signatures in the gut microbiome of German elite athletes: insights from a matched-subgroup analysis.mSystems · 2026Trial
- The Effects of Dietary Fiber and High-Dietary-Fiber Diets on Body Weight Regulation and Lipid Metabolism in Athletes: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- From Mechanisms to Practice: Gut Microbiome-Based Strategies for Supporting Recovery in Elite Athletes.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Athlete or Season? Gut Microbiota Variance in Elite Volleyball Players: A Compositional Performance-Based Reanalysis.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Design-Driven Gel-Based Delivery Systems for Bioactives in Sports Nutrition.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Dietary assessment of elite orienteering athletes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exploring the Gut Microbiome in Combat Sports: A Systematic Scoping Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Power from the press cake: a scoping and compositional review of defatted nut and seed powders with regards to sports nutrition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Vegetarian diets in female athletes: performance, health outcomes, and the implementation gap.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Association between adherence to Saudi healthy plate dietary guidelines and physical activity, muscular endurance, and body composition among adult gym users.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Short term body mass manipulation in powerlifting: a narrative review and best practice recommendations.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Review
- Improvements in competition performance of national-level track and field athletes following a personalized nutrition intervention: a mixed methods approach.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Knowledge Gaps, Sleep Disturbances, and Energy Imbalance Among Female Field Hockey Players.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- A 30% high-fiber diet mitigates oxidative stress and inflammation while modulating cecal microbiota in rats undergoing high-intensity exercise.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Mechanisms underlying alterations of the gut microbiota by exercise and their role in shaping ecological resilience.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
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Abstract
Although dietary guidelines concerning carbohydrate intake for athletes are well established, these do not include recommendations for daily fibre intake. However, there are many scenarios in sports nutrition in which common practice involves the manipulation of fibre intake to address gastrointestinal comfort around exercise, or acute or chronic goals around the management of body mass or composition. The effect of fibre intake in overall health is also important, particularly in combination with other dietary considerations such as the elevated protein requirements in this population. An athlete's habitual intake of dietary fibre should be assessed. If less than 20 g a day, athletes may consider dietary interventions to gradually increase intake. It is proposed that a ramp phase is adopted to gradually increase fibre ingestion to ~ 30 g of fibre a day (which includes ~ 2 g of beta-glucan) over a duration of 6 weeks. The outcomes of achieving a daily fibre intake are to help preserve athlete gut microbiome diversity and stability, intestinal barrier function as well as the downstream effects of short-chain fatty acids produced following the fermentation of microbiome accessible carbohydrates. Nevertheless, there are scenarios in which daily manipulation of fibre intake, either to reduce or increase intake, may be valuable in assisting the athlete to maintain gastrointestinal comfort during exercise or to contribute to body mass/composition goals. Although further research is required, the aim of this current opinion paper is to ensure that fibre is not forgotten as a nutrient in the athlete's diet.
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