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Trial reportNutrition bulletin2025

The Role of Fermentable Fibre on Endurance Exercise Capacity: A Randomised Crossover Trial of Inulin Supplementation.

L Torquati, H Power, T Pons, J Bowtell

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrition bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Trial
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

L TorquatiPublic Health and Sport Sciences, Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4896-7598
H PowerNatural Sciences, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
T PonsNatural Sciences, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0009-0009-1926-2434
J BowtellPublic Health and Sport Sciences, Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4281-9212

Funding

British Nutrition Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Manipulation of the mouse gut microbiome has been shown to increase gut-derived short-chain fatty acids and improve exercise capacity. Associations between exercise performance and gut microbiome composition and metabolites have also been identified in human studies. Yet there is little direct evidence that prebiotics are able to increase acetate production and improve exercise capacity in human participants. We conducted a randomised controlled cross-over trial with 21 healthy and active males (35.0 ± 6.9 years; 24.4 ± 2.7 kg/m

Indexed as

Dietary FiberExerciseFermentationInulinPhysical EnduranceAcetatesAdultCross-Over StudiesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansMaleYoung AdultAcetatesDietary FiberInulinacetateexercise performanceinulinmicrobio*muscle perfusiontime trial

Identifiers

PMID40400074
PMCPMC12398646

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