Food supplement and composition comprising choline butyrate salt and/or butyrylcholine

A method of improving the intestinal health of a human comprising administering a pharmaceutical composition or food supplement to the human, wherein the pharmaceutical composition or food supplement comprises, as a single active ingredient, at least 50% by weight of butyrylcholine according to formula (II),

• wherein X− represents an anion,
• wherein improving the intestinal health of the human comprises the selective elimination, suppression and/or regulation of at least one enteropathogen selected from the group consisting of (i) a bacterial pathogen of the genera Brachispira, Vibrio, Escherichia, Salmonella, Shigella, Klebsiella, Erwinia, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Helicobacter, Pseudomonas, Enterococcus or Clostridium, (ii) a fungal or yeast pathogen of the genera Penicillium, Aspergillus, Fusarium, Cephalosporum, Saccharomyces, Candida, Fungi Imperfecti or Hemiascomycetes, and (iii) a viral pathogen of the genera Norovirus or Rotavirus and wherein the pharmaceutical composition or food supplement administered at a daily dose of butyrylcholine according to formula (II) is 50 mg to 1 g per day.