About the Authors

Valentina Pasqualetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Pasqualetti, Annamaria Altomare

* ; l.degara@unicampus.it

Affiliation Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Annamaria Altomare

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Pasqualetti, Annamaria Altomare

* ; l.degara@unicampus.it

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Michele Pier Luca Guarino

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Vittoria Locato

Affiliation Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Silvia Cocca

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Sara Cimini

Affiliation Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Rossella Palma

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Rossana Alloni

Affiliation Surgery Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Laura De Gara

* ; l.degara@unicampus.it

Affiliation Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Michele Cicala

Affiliation Gastroenterology Unit, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

Sensus (Sensus, Roosendal, The Netherlands) provided inulin Frutafit IQ, inulin Frutafit TEX, agavins from blue agave and levans form Bacillus subtilis for this study. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VP AA MPLG VL LDG MC. Performed the experiments: VP AA S. Cocca S. Cimini RP. Analyzed the data: VP AA S. Cocca MPLG VL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VP AA RA. Wrote the paper: VP AA S. Cocca RP MPLG LDG MC.