Microblog: List of Fiber Butyrate-Rich Foods

🥩Another graphic from @CarnivoreCure:
Fiber is one of the big backlashes against a meat-based diet. It’s ironic though because one of the most overarching benefits of eating meat-based is healing gut health issues.⠀

🥦The thought is that we need fibrous plant foods to fuel our large intestine with short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). These SCFAs are broken down by the colon to offer gut supporting SCFAs such as butyrate (butyric acid), propionate (propionic acid) and acetate (acetic acid).

☝🏼Butyrate is essential because it is the preferred fuel source by colonocytes (endothelial cells of the large intestine). In the large intestine, fibrous plant foods require the breakdown of its chemical structure to then make short chain fatty acids.⠀
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🧀Butter, cream and cheese contain butyrate in its bioavailable form. In fact, butter is the best source of butyric acid or butyrate. So much so that the origins of the word butyric acid is from the Latin word, butyrum-the same origins for the word butter.

❓How did we come to think that butyric acid is best from plants?⠀

🎯The no. 1 dietary source of butyrate is butter. Not plant foods but butter.⠀
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🥁The greatest food source for acetate (SCFA) is vinegar. Not a plant-food but…