Fig. 5

Subjective feelings of gastrointestinal discomfort during the constant load trials with isomaltulose, maltodextrin and glucose. Boxes extend from 25th to 75th percentile of each condition’s distribution, vertical extending lines denote adjacent values (i.e., the most extreme values within the interquartile range (IQR)), horizontal line in the box represents the median, x represents the mean value (maltodextrin: 2.24 ± 1.48, isomaltulose: 2.26 ± 1.65, glucose 1.98 ± 1.13), filled dots denote outliers (defined by 1.5 times IQR)