A Study to Evaluate the Effect of Diet on the Tolerability of FOS in Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be able to give written informed consent;
• Be male or female of any race, between 18 and 65 years of age;
• Have a BMI > 20 & < 27 kg/m2;
• Be willing to follow a controlled low fiber diet for a period of 11 days;

Exclusion criteria

• Are less than 18 and greater than 65 years of age;
• Are hypersensitive to any of the components of FOS;
• Are currently taking probiotic or prebiotic supplements, or have taken them in the past 28 days;
• Unwilling to avoid probiotics/prebiotics supplements for the duration of the study;
• Have a significant acute or chronic, unstable and untreated disease or any condition which contraindicates, in the investigators judgment, entry to the study;
• Subject is a smoker;
• Subject has a history of drug and/or alcohol abuse at the time of enrollment;
• Taken a medication that the investigator believes would interfere with the objectives of the study, pose a safety risk or confound the interpretation of the study results;
• Individuals who, in the opinion of the investigator, are considered to be poor attendees or unlikely for any reason to be able to comply with the trial;
• Subjects may not be receiving treatment involving experimental drugs;
• If the subject has been in a recent experimental trial, these must have been completed not less than 60 days prior to this study;