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Record W4417483959 · doi:10.1016/j.jff.2025.107139

Lyophilized Bryndza cheese capsules increase butyrate-producing gut bacteria in recreational athletes: A randomized controlled trial

2025· article· en· W4417483959 on OpenAlex
Ivan Hric, Libuša Nechalová, Miroslava Šimiaková, Eva Baranovičová, Galal Ali Esmail, Riadh Hammami, Adela Penesová, Viktor Bielik

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Functional Foods · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicProbiotics and Fermented Foods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersVedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAVAgentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja
KeywordsProbioticMetabolomeBacteriaLactobacillus paracaseiLactococcus lactisLactic acidPropionibacteriumGut flora

Abstract

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Bryndza, a traditional sheep cheese from Eastern Europe, is a natural source of probiotic lactic acid bacteria (LAB). This study investigated the effects of encapsulated bryndza probiotic capsules on the gut microbiome and metabolome of young athletes. Recreational runners ( n = 26 experimental; n = 18 control) completed an 8-week intervention. Participants in the experimental group consumed Bryndza capsules. Stool samples and body composition were collected before and after intervention. Microbiota composition was analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and fecal metabolites were measured using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Bryndza capsules contained viable LAB, including Lacticaseibacillus paracasei , Lactococcus lactis , Leuconostoc mesenteroides , and Enterococcus species. No changes in body composition were observed. In the experimental group, butyrate-producing bacteria, such as Anaerostipes hadrus , Eubacterium ventriosum , and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii , increased significantly. Our findings indicate that lyophilized and encapsulated Bryndza retains probiotic activity and positively modulates the gut microbiome, particularly by enhancing butyrate-producing bacteria. • Encapsulated Bryndza preserved viability of traditional probiotic strains. • Bryndza capsules increased butyrate-producing gut bacteria in recreational runners. • Probiotic effect observed without increasing lactic acid bacteria in stool. • No coliform overgrowth confirmed microbiological safety of Bryndza capsules.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.228
Threshold uncertainty score0.738

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it