show Abstracthide AbstractIn this study, 7-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into groups fed control diet and water, control diet and 1 Kestos water, high-fat diet and water, and high-fat diet and 1 Kestos water, and kept for 19 weeks before dissection and collection of cecum contents. DNA was extracted from the cecum contents and 16SrRNA amplicon analysis was used to identify the intestinal microbiota