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Soluble fibres like baobab and acacia gum are classified as fermentable and partly prebiotic in current research. What the studies actually show, where the limits sit and what it means for you as an athlete. With Eveleens Maarse 2024, Riedel 2025 and Momo Cabrera 2024, honestly framed.

Does a high protein intake stress your gut? What really happens in the colon when a lot of protein arrives, and why fibre counter-regulates the gut flora measurably. Two meta-analyses and recent reviews show it is not the amount of protein but the substrate balance that decides.

Plant protein is absorbed well, just a little slower than whey – the DIAAS gap is a quality, not a digestibility problem. DigeZyme acts on the breakdown (hydrolysis); the bloating comes from accompanying sugars, not the protein. What the research shows and what to look for.

Bloating after a protein shake is almost never caused by the protein itself, but by multiple sugars like raffinose and stachyose that ferment in the colon. Why pure isolates are the key lever and what role the enzymes actually play.