Card 09Shape: long rod

Longo

Bifidobacterium longum. The old-timer. Ferments the fibre you can’t digest and tells the crew how it used to be.

Card 09Shape: long rod

Longo

Bifidobacterium longum

The old-timer. Ferments the fibre you can’t digest and tells the crew how it used to be.

Longo

The stats

Shape: A long rod, sometimes curved or branched. Longum is Latin for long.
Hangs out: Large intestine.
Eats: Prebiotic fibres like inulin and FOS.
Fun fact: B. longum turns up in guts at every age, from the first months of life to old age.

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The file on Longo

Longo is Bifidobacterium longum, and longum is Latin for long. He’s a long rod, sometimes curved, sometimes with a little branch, which is the bifido family trait.

B. longum lives in guts at every age, from the first months of life to the last, so Longo has seen it all. Like Biff, he lives in the colon and ferments the fibre your own enzymes can’t cut. Unlike Biff, he tells you about it.

Shape: A long rod, sometimes curved or branched. Longum is Latin for long.
Hangs out: Large intestine.
Eats: Prebiotic fibres like inulin and FOS.
Fun fact: B. longum turns up in guts at every age, from the first months of life to old age.

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Far-out fact

Longum is Latin for long. B. longum lives in the gut from babyhood to old age.

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