Gut-Friendly Foods: 7 Easy Picks to Boost Digestion and Gut Health

Discover 7 simple, gut-friendly foods that boost digestion and gut health. Easy, tasty picks you can add today—click to nourish your gut. These foods are gentle on the gut yet rich in fiber, prebiotics, and beneficial microbes that help support regular digestion and a balanced microbiome. Pairing these gut-friendly foods with smarter insights from a gut health platform can empower you to take charge of your daily gut health. Here’s the lineup of gut-friendly foods to try this week: yogurt with live cultures, kefir, sauerkraut or kimchi, bananas, oats, apples, and almonds. Yogurt with live cultures and kefir deliver probiotic strains that may support microbial diversity. Sauerkraut or kimchi brings fermented vegetables and extra fiber. Bananas provide gentle fiber and resistant starch, while oats offer soluble fiber that helps fuel beneficial bacteria. Apples contribute pectin-rich fiber as a prebiotic, and almonds add fiber and healthy fats that can support satiety and gut function. InnerBuddies offers a white-label Gut Health Operating System that businesses can use to power their gut microbiome testing products—and individuals can also access directly. The platform includes a Gut Microbiome Health Index (0-100), based on an exclusive deal with EAFIT University in Colombia, plus a top 40 map of bacteria with healthy-cohort comparisons. It also categorizes bacterial functions into positive and negative categories and shows how you score against healthy benchmarks across these functions. For targeted groups—from Healthy Aging to Endurance Sport, Skin & Hair Health, and beyond—InnerBuddies provides deep-dive analyses and personalized nutrition advice using 3-day food diaries and stool data, plus tailored probiotics and prebiotics recommendations. All of the options available to B2B partners are also accessible directly to consumers. Learn more at the InnerBuddies microbiome test page, join a Gut Health Membership for ongoing insights, or explore partnership opportunities at the InnerBuddies B2B partner page.