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ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2025

The role of fermented foods in maternal health during pregnancy and infant health during the first 1,000 days of life.

Arun Pandiyan, Manoj Gurung, Bharath Kumar Mulakala, Sathish Kumar Ponniah, Laxmi Yeruva

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Review in Frontiers in nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Microorganisms · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Arun Pandiyan *Microbiome and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS, SEA, Little Rock, AR, United States.
Manoj Gurung *Microbiome and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS, SEA, Little Rock, AR, United States.
Bharath Kumar MulakalaMicrobiome and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS, SEA, Little Rock, AR, United States.
Sathish Kumar PonniahDepartment of Agriculture, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR, United States.
Laxmi YeruvaMicrobiome and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA-ARS, SEA, Little Rock, AR, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fermented foods are a good source of nutrition, with microbiota and metabolites that can positively influence consumer health. With the increasingly negative health outcomes from using low-quality diets like processed diets, functional products like fermented foods are getting more attention than ever. All cultures of the world consume some kind of fermented foods. Extensive literature outlines positive health and clinical outcomes associated with fermented foods, yet most data are associative and lack longitudinal studies. This review explores the role of fermented foods during pregnancy and its subsequent impact on maternal and infant health, especially in the first 1,000 days of life. In this review, we have summarized the literature on fermented foods from preclinical and clinical studies that evaluated the impact of maternal consumption of fermented foods on mothers and offspring microbiota, immune system, and brain health outcomes. We also discussed existing knowledge gaps on maternal-child dyads and mechanistic studies needed to provide better scientific evidence to promote fermented foods consumption.

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brainfermented foodsgut microbiotaimmune systeminfantpregnancy

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PMID40538587
PMCPMC12176608

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