Effects of regularly consuming dietary fibre rich soluble cocoa products on bowel habits in healthy subjects: a free-living, two-stage, randomized, crossover, single-blind intervention

Table 9 Effects of consuming the soluble cocoa products on intestinal transit time (mean values and standard error of mean (SEM), n = 44)

	Dye appearance time (hours)		Dye disappearance time (hours)
Stage	Mean	SEM	Mean	SEM
Non-cocoa	31.46	1.48	71.72	2.84
Cocoa product A	35.04	2.81	76.93	6.06
Cocoa product B	30.05	1.97	67.32	4.10
	N.S.		N.S.

Dye appearance and disappeareance time were studied using a mixed model with repeated measures (stage) with one factorial fixed factor (cocoa product).

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