Sentences with phrase «fiber plant matter»

Rabbit digestion gets weirder — they actually have a special organ, called the cecum, which exists only for the fermentation and digestion of high - fiber plant matter.

Not exact matches

It matters because the plant you're left with is a more easily digestable grain with readily available vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, and all that jazz.

«In looking for biofuels microbes in the cow rumen, we found that Prevotella bryantii, a bacterium that is known to efficiently break down (the plant fiber) hemicellulose, gears up production of one gene more than others when it is digesting plant matter,» Cann said.

When people eat a plant - heavy diet, the fiber from the plant matter ferments in the gut and creates short - chain fatty acids, which, in turn, regulate the immune system and influence gene expression in the brain and elsewhere.

No matter how you eat, getting a higher Plant / Animal ratio will provide your body the vitamins, fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients it craves.

It's kind of a dumb distinction, so just eat lots of plant matter that's fairly low in calories and high in micronutrients and fiber.

Just eat some plant matter if it's fiber you're after.

What we do know of human consumption of fiber is incompatible with a meat - dominant diet; there is just too much plant matter to allow very much meat at all in ancient diets.

Both of those fruits contain twice as much sugar as cranberries in their raw state, but their quantities of plant matter and fiber are low.

These little pods of goodness can be steamed in a matter of minutes and sprinkled with a bit of sea salt for a satisfying snack that brings high quality plant - based protein and a good amount of dietary fiber to the table.

Does it matter if plant fiber is blended in a smoothie?

So if you made a sudden change over to a very high fiber WFPB diet from a high fat / high protein animal food based diet, then you might still have the intestinal fauna and flora of a meat eater and it will take a while for those that best suited to processing plant matter without overproducing gas and especially malodorous gasses to become dominant.

They've done a lot of work to start to understand the role of diet in this realm, and what they're finding is that a diet rich in dietary fiber (plant matter) helps to keep the microbiota happy.

Fiber, which can be soluble or insoluble, is the name for the plant matter that humans and dogs are incapable of digesting.

Because your bunny's ancestors spent millions of years subsisting on low - calorie plant matter, feeding them dense, low fiber fruits like bananas can easily cause them to become overweight or obese.

Your rabbit, unlike fruit - eating herbivores like fruit bats, evolved to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating high - fiber, low - sugar plant matter.

Look for food with pure protein sources and little to no plant matter or fiber.

Biomass are plants (like hemp, corn, sugarcane) grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, plus plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals, or heat.