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  • Metabolomics
  • Human health

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  • Individual variability in diet response impacts vascular and cognitive health.
  • Understanding these variations is crucial for effective dietary interventions.

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  • To evaluate and characterize individual responses to a blueberry dietary intervention.
  • To investigate potential urinary metabolite biomarkers for response prediction.

Main Methods:

  • A 1-week single-blinded cross-over randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 37 healthy participants.
  • Comparison of whole fresh blueberries, freeze-dried blueberry powder, and a placebo.
  • Analysis of vascular health and cognitive endpoints, alongside urinary metabolites.

Main Results:

  • Significant inter-individual variation observed in vascular (-141% to +525%) and cognitive (-114% to +96%) endpoints.
  • No consistent response patterns were found between or within participants for either intervention.
  • No significant discriminatory urinary metabolites were identified between interventions or as predictors of response.

Conclusions:

  • This study, the first to use quartile divisions for blueberry intervention response, found inconsistent individual outcomes.
  • No predictive urinary metabolite biomarkers were identified for differentiating responders from non-responders.
  • The approach of defining a metabolic signature shows promise for future personalized nutrition.