Systematic evaluation of antimicrobial food preservatives on glucose metabolism and gut microbiota in healthy mice

ARTICLE OPEN Systematic evaluation of antimicrobial food preservatives on glucose metabolism and gut microbiota in healthy mice Ping Li 1 , Ming Li1 , Tao Wu1 , Ying Song1 , Yan Li1 , Xiaochang Huang 1 , Hui Lu 1 ✉ and Zhenjiang Zech Xu 1 ✉ Certain antimicrobial preservatives (APs) have been shown to perturb gut microbiota. So far, it is not yet fully known that whether similar effects are observable for a more diverse set of APs. It also remains elusive if biogenic APs are superior to...