ZOE’s at-home Gut Health Test kit uses industry-leading MetaPhlAn4 technology. This allows ZOE to identify the presence of “good” or “bad” microbes in any individual and calculate a personalised overall index of microbiome health based on their relative abundance.

Here are the 100 gut bacteria found in our research to be most strongly associated with cardiometabolic health outcomes in our consumer population (UK and US adults):

<b>50 "Good" gut microbes we test for</b> 🐛

- Oscillobacter species
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Clostridium species
- Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Clostridiaceae species
- Roseburia species
- Intestinimonas gabonensis
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Oscillibacter valericigenes
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Clostridium species
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Candidatus Gastranaerophilales species
- Lachnospira species
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Oscillobacter species
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Lawsonibacter hominis
- Eubacterium siraeum
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Oscillospiraceae species
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Alistipes communis
- Firmicutes species

<b>50 "Bad" gut microbes we test for 🪲</b>

- Faecalimonas umbilicata
- Clostridium species
- Blautia hansenii
- Amedibacillus dolichus
- Ruminococcus torques
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Blautia hansenii
- Blautia caecimuris
- Clostridiaceae species
- Flavonifractor plautii
- Ruminococcus gnavus
- Mediterraneibacter glycyrrhizinilyticus
- Clostridiaceae species
- Enterocloster bolteae
- Eggerthella lenta
- Blautia argi
- Enterocloster aldenensis
- Firmicutes species
- Blautia wexlerae
- Anaerostipes caccae
- Clostridium innocuum
- Enterocloster clostridioformis
- Anaerotignum faecicola
- Escherichia coli
- Firmicutes species
- Firmicutes species
- Pseudoflavonifractor gallinarum
- Eubacteriales species
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Dorea phocaeensis
- Hungatella hathewayi
- Tyzzerella nexilis
- Sellimonas intestinalis
- Streptococcus mitis
- Clostridium scindens
- Phocaeicola vulgatus
- Bacteroides uniformis
- Erysipelatoclostridium ramosum
- Firmicutes species
- Enterocloster citroniae
- Lactococcus cremoris
- Longicatena caecimuris
- Blautia massiliensis
- Blautia producta
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Eisenbergiella tayi
- Firmicutes species
- Lachnospiraceae species
- Streptococcus anginosus
- Bacterium species

📚 You can read more about our groundbreaking research on gut microbes here: <a href="https://zoe.com/learn/new-microbiome-breakthrough" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New microbiome breakthrough from ZOE, thanks to community science</a>

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What Gut Microbiome Bacteria do we test for?

50 "Good" gut microbes we test for 🐛

50 "Bad" gut microbes we test for 🪲