Validity of food additive maltodextrin as placebo and effects on human gut physiology: systematic review of placebo-controlled clinical trials.

Rawan AlmutairiAbigail Raffner BassonPamela WearshFabio CominelliAlexander Rodriguez-Palacios

Published in: European journal of nutrition (2022)

Orally-consumed MDX often (63.9% of RCTs) induces effects on human physiology/gut microbiota. Such effects question the validity of MDX as a placebo-control in human clinical trials.

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