SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Effects of Walnut Supplementation on Short-Chain Fatty Acid Levels in Healthy Volunteers
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- A walnut-intake study measured stool metabolites and explored their relationship with the microbial metabolite urolithin A.
- Who / model studied
- Participants included people with and without obesity. The abstract does not state sample size, intervention duration or the assigned comparison regimen.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Dose and schedule have not yet been extracted for this summary.
- What the study found
- Walnut intake was associated with 2.8% greater gut microbial diversity, a 17.6% lower ratio of two bacterial groups and reductions in three measured metabolites. Changes were more pronounced with obesity. The abstract reports no urolithin-A-specific treatment effect.
- Limitations & context
- Study limitations were not stated in the abstract. Methodological quality has not been appraised.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.64898/2026.09.08.26362468