Correction to: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-021-00440-6, published online 4 May 2021.

In the original version of this Consensus Statement article published online, a bar in Figure 1 was incorrectly labelled as “parabiotics” when it should have been labelled as “paraprobiotics”. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF version of the article.

Figure 1 | Total number of mentions in the literature of different terms referring to inanimate microorganisms and/or their metabolites.