The PEN team was made aware of recent interest in the role of emulsifiers and gut microbiome and health. Dietary emulsifiers help to combine or stabilize substances that usually don’t stay together when mixed. They affect a food’s appearance, texture and shelf-life and are commonly found in processed and ultra-processed foods such as margarine, mayonnaise and salad dressings, sauces, nut butters, chocolate products, milk and dairy including ice cream products and commercially made baked goods.

A new diet, the NiMe diet, has been designed to restore our industrialized gut microbiomes to their “ancestral” state. The PEN Team asked: what is this diet, and what does it mean for dietitians in practice?

A collection of websites related to microbioia.

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Background information regarding gut microbiota.

2026 is the year of the cabbage! This trend is fuelled in part by claims that cabbage in its fermented form, sauerkraut and kimchi, and other fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, tempeh and some kombucha fermented teas can potentially improve digestion, immunity and possibly mood.