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Will dietary fiber help digestion? It might depend on your gut bacteria
July 27, 2026
ITHACA, New York, July 27 -- The Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences posted the following news:

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Will dietary fiber help digestion? It might depend on your gut bacteria

By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle

Doctors recommend dietary fiber for healthy digestion, but to benefit from it, people not only need specific species of gut bacteria but the right strains of those bacteria to process the starches, according t . . .

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