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Does chronic supplementation of the diet with dietary fibre extracted from pea or carrot affect colonic motility in man?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Claire GuéDon ,
Philippe Ducrotté ,
Jean Michel Antoine ,
Philippe Denis ,
Raymond Colin  and
Eric Lerebours
Claire GuéDon
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physiopathologie Digestive et Nutritionnelle, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, l rue de Germont, F-76031 Rouen Cedex, France
Philippe Ducrotté
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physiopathologie Digestive et Nutritionnelle, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, l rue de Germont, F-76031 Rouen Cedex, France
Jean Michel Antoine
Affiliation:
BSN, 6 rue de Téhéran, F-75006, Paris, France
Philippe Denis
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physiopathologie Digestive et Nutritionnelle, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, l rue de Germont, F-76031 Rouen Cedex, France
Raymond Colin
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physiopathologie Digestive et Nutritionnelle, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, l rue de Germont, F-76031 Rouen Cedex, France
Eric Lerebours
Affiliation:
Groupe de Physiopathologie Digestive et Nutritionnelle, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, l rue de Germont, F-76031 Rouen Cedex, France
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The aim of the present study was to assess, in healthy volunteers and under physiological conditions, the acceptability, clinical tolerance and effects on colonic motility of chronic supplementation of the usual diet with new dietary fibre sources. Three studies were carried out, one after a period of habitual diet, and two after randomized 3-week periods of supplementation with fibre extracted either from pea hulls or carrots, added to the meals as a fine powder. The 24 h motility was recorded on an unprepared colon at five levels to determine the initiation site and the number of high amplitude propagated contractions (HAPC) and to quantify motor activity every 30 min, particularly in the two periods following lunch and breakfast. With the habitual diet the motility pattern was an irregular alternation of quiescence and sporadic non-propagated contractions. HAPC always started from the ascending colon and occurred mainly after breakfast. With either type of fibre the 24 h motor profiles, the 24 h variations and the number of HAPC were not significantly modified but a more distal initiation of HAPC was found. The colonic postprandial motor response was more diffuse after dietary enrichment with carrot fibre than after enrichment with pea-hull fibre. In healthy volunteers the long-term addition of fibre extracted from pea hulls and carrots to the usual diet was easy and well-tolerated without clinical side-effects, but with limited colonic motor effects. However, the more distal initiation of HAPC observed could be deleterious.

Keywords

Dietary fibreColonic motility
Type
Human and Clinical Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , July 1996 , pp. 51 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1996

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