On a slightly different note.8 Apr 2022 12:35
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.766293/full
Soluble Non-Starch Polysaccharides From Plantain (Musa x paradisiaca L.) Diminish Epithelial Impact of Clostridioides difficile
"Plantain (Musa x paradisiaca L.) non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) preparations from excipient-free plantain flour (Trobana Green Plantain flour AAB group (Horn)); Confoco International Ltd.; Ripley, United Kingdom) were prepared by Provexis plc (Reading, United Kingdom) at the Teagasc Food Research Centre (Moorepark, Ireland) as previously described"......
"NOβK is a present, and CR a past, employee of Provexis Plc. BC, HS and JR received additional funding support from the biotech partner Provexis Plc as part of the BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship (BB/I016783/1). JR is listed as inventor on patents held by Provexis Plc, in a licence agreement with the University of Liverpool, for use of complex oligosaccharides in the prevention or treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (US8945639B2), and for use of soluble fibres in antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (US20120165289A1).".....
"We are also grateful to Drs Peter Laing, David OβBrien, Patrick Druggan and Helen Martin, all former employees of Provexis plc, for additional support in research and development, access to laboratory facilities, sponsorship and intellectual discussion regarding the studies."