FOS and Hypertension: Oral supplement to HFD, but not ND offspring, at 6 or 8 weeks with FOS (4 g/kg/day) and L.gasseri (3 × 106 CFU/mL/day), given alone or together, appreciably protected the adult offspring from programmed hypertension and the increases in plasma NE level and sympathetic outflow (Figure 1).