i find that hard to believe, i could see a significant portion like 30%, but surely a lot of it is also cells from the body being flushed out, and just straight up the part of our food that didn’t get absorbed? Like the whole reason we need fibre is so it goes through the digestive system and makes the poo have a good consistency…
Edit: yeah the abstract says that 55% of the solids in poo is bacteria (17% fibre, and 24% other soluble stuff. Also this is in 9 people eating a british diet which isn’t exactly famous for being high in fibre…), so yes technically poo is mostly bacteria but only if you ignore the water and then it’s only barely a majority of the solid matter. Still interesting that it’s that high of a percentage, though.
i find that hard to believe, i could see a significant portion like 30%, but surely a lot of it is also cells from the body being flushed out, and just straight up the part of our food that didn’t get absorbed? Like the whole reason we need fibre is so it goes through the digestive system and makes the poo have a good consistency…
Edit: yeah the abstract says that 55% of the solids in poo is bacteria (17% fibre, and 24% other soluble stuff. Also this is in 9 people eating a british diet which isn’t exactly famous for being high in fibre…), so yes technically poo is mostly bacteria but only if you ignore the water and then it’s only barely a majority of the solid matter. Still interesting that it’s that high of a percentage, though.