However, if served in baby bottles, a high frequency (31 per cent of 74 samples) were contaminated with
faecal germs, most of them with colony counts of 10,000 or more per millilitre.
The specific effects of food structure (increased satiety, reduced transit time and glycaemic response), fibre (improved
faecal bulking and satiety, viscosity and SCFA production, and / or reduced glycaemic response) and Mg (better glycaemic homeostasis through increased insulin secretion), together with the antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic properties of numerous bioactive compounds, especially those in the bran and
germ (minerals, trace elements, vitamins, carotenoids, polyphenols and alkylresorcinols), are today well - recognised mechanisms in this protection.