The Sourdough School

DIVERSITY BREAD® || PERSONALISED BREAD || BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

BAKE WITH THE HANDS OF AN ARTISAN AND THE MIND OF A CLINICIAN

Set within the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, The Sourdough School is home to the Proven Bread Programme, teaching the art and science of nutrition, the gut microbiome and fermentation in bread. We train bakers to produce Diversity Bread® and healthcare professionals to personalise bread through Baking as Lifestyle Medicine. Arrange a conversation today.

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Resistant Starch: Promise for Improving Human Health

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Resistant starch and “the butyrate revolution”

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The Effect of Psyllium Husk on Intestinal Microbiota in Constipated Patients and Healthy Controls

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Prebiotic potential of pectin and pectic oligosaccharides to promote anti-inflammatory commensal bacteria in the human colon

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Potential of Pectins to Beneficially Modulate the Gut Microbiota Depends on Their Structural Properties

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Effect of inulin on the human gut microbiota: stimulation of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii

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Fiber and prebiotics: mechanisms and health benefits

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Effects of fructo-oligosaccharides ingestion on fecal bifidobacteria and selected metabolic indexes of colon carcinogenesis in healthy humans

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Dietary fructooligosaccharides and potential benefits on health

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Effects of Arabinoxylan and Resistant Starch on Intestinal Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Subjects with Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomised Crossover Study

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In vitro investigation into the potential prebiotic activity of honey oligosaccharides

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Effect of honey in improving the gut microbial balance

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Prebiotic Potential and Chemical Composition of Seven Culinary Spice Extracts

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Prebiotic and other health-related effects of cereal-derived arabinoxylans, arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides, and xylooligosaccharides

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Balancing Herbal Medicine and Functional Food for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases through Modulating Gut Microbiota

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