Fermentation Product Diversity

Interactive Fermentation Product Secretion Explorer

This figure permits an exploration of the distribution of our estimated fermentation product secretion from published studies of human microbiome composition. The top panel allows you to select between different published studies and filter on individuals within different age categories and health status. The grey histogram (right) illustrates what fraction of the total microbial biomass is represented by the bacterial species we experimentally examined in this study.

The middle panel allows you to either i) directly adjust how much microbiota available carbohydrate reaches the lower intestine, ii) directly adjust how much starch and fibers are consumed, or iii) select different reference diets as described in the main text of the paper.

The bottom panel shows the distributions of expected microbial biomass and fermentation products. Additionally, we show the total daily energy content of all secreted fermentation products.

Bokeh Plot

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