# Inulin -Prebiotic - gut health
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [March 8, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419 "2020-03-08T00:50:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/1 "2020-03-08T00:50:08Z")
I wasn’t sure where to post this about inulin and the potential benefits to gut health. Has anyone had experience with Inulin? Gut health impacts our immune system, and more.
> **[Health Effects and Sources of Prebiotic Dietary Fiber](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041804/)**
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> Prebiotic dietary fibers act as carbon sources for primary and secondary fermentation pathways in the colon, and support digestive health in many ways. Fructooligosaccharides, inulin, and galactooligosaccharides are universally agreed-upon...
This study is on Type 2:
> **[Effects of High Performance Inulin Supplementation on Glycemic Control and...](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638225/)**
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> The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of high performance inulin supplementation on blood glycemic control and antioxidant status in women with type 2 diabetes.In a randomized, triple-blind controlled trial, 49 females (fiber intake...
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### Author:  [@jbowler](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jbowler)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/2 "2020-03-08T01:27:44Z")
In general I find fibre helps, quite a lot, to moderate the effects of high sugar items (e.g. fruit) on my post-prandial blood sugars. Of course I’m a type 1, so acutely aware of this since I feel the BG rise. T2s don’t necessarily get that feeling. The test set of the _second_ study were “49 females (fiber intake \<30 g/day, 25\
### Author:  [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/3 "2020-03-08T01:59:12Z")
How many of you measure the fiber content of your food? Being a PWD, I tend to measure carbs only. I have NO IDEA how much fiber I take in daily.
I try to eat balanced meals, some fruits (berries, or a portion of an apple) green vegetables (broccoli, or brussel sprouts, kale, romaine lettuce, spinach,etc), some walnuts, flaxseed meal, meat/protein/poultry, dark chocolate. Of these aforementioned: fruits, green vegetables, flaxseed and nuts all seem to contain fiber.
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### Author:  [@jbowler](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jbowler)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/4 "2020-03-08T02:58:12Z")
> [@lh378](#):
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> Of these aforementioned: fruits, green vegetables, flaxseed and nuts all seem to contain fiber.
Well, “dark chocolate”:
So, for one reason or another today I ate the whole bar; four servings, 16g of fibre, 4 of sugars. My G6 tells me the carb number isn’t some marketing guys fantasy. The total weight is 100g, so from a T2 point of view the problem is the 52g of fat. There’s 16g of protein in there too, which is actually more significant for a T1 that the net ~4g of sugar simply because we don’t always count the protein.
Yep: you are absolutely correct **most of what we eat contains a lot of fibre**. We are not typical of the population at large.
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### Author:  [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/5 "2020-03-10T16:24:05Z")
Yessssss!!! dark chocolate- one of my favorite treats.
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### Author:  [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/inulin-prebiotic-gut-health/9419/6 "2020-04-24T03:00:46Z")
BTW - dark chocolate has protein too! So…carb, fiber protein…a perfect food - sounds good to me.