New Zealand researchers are investigating whether kiwifruit could help people with coeliac disease digest gluten – and the lab results are looking promising. The research, which is being done at the Riddet Institute, involves testing whether natural enzymes in the...

By now, it’s a familiar fact: Humans have more bacterial cells — a lot more — than human cells. Bacteria live on the skin, in the nose and ears, and, most of all, in the gut. Until recently, if most people thought about those bacteria at all, we tended to think of...

Eating kiwifruit could boost your beneficial gut bacteria and thus your health, according to findings from a new study by New Zealand scientists. The researchers looked into whether kiwifruit could be used as prebiotics - foods that are used to help people recover...