Probiotics, their health benefits and applications for developing healthier foods: a review

Abstract In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional effects. Currently, the most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and prebiot...

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Published in:FEMS microbiology letters 2012-09, Vol.334 (1), p.1-15
Main Authors: Nagpal, Ravinder, Kumar, Ashwani, Kumar, Manoj, Behare, Pradip V., Jain, Shalini, Yadav, Hariom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Catabolism
dairy foods
Dairy products
Dietary supplements
Flora
Food
Food industry
Food, Organic - analysis
Food, Organic - microbiology
Functional Food - analysis
Functional Food - microbiology
functional foods
Functional foods & nutraceuticals
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gastrointestinal system
Gastrointestinal tract
gut microbial communities
Health promotion
Humans
Implantation
Insurance Benefits
Intestine
lactic acid bacteria
lactobacillus
Microbiology
Microorganisms
Miscellaneous
Nutrition
Prebiotics
Probiotics
Probiotics - analysis
Yogurt
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Summary:Abstract In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional effects. Currently, the most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and prebiotics, or they are collectively known as ‘synbiotics’. Moreover, with an already healthy image, dairy products appear to be an excellent mean for inventing nutritious foods. Such probiotic dairy foods beneficially affect the host by improving survival and implantation of live microbial dietary supplements in the gastrointestinal flora, by selectively stimulating the growth or activating the catabolism of one or a limited number of health-promoting bacteria in the intestinal tract, and by improving the gastrointestinal tract's microbial balance. Hence, the paper reviews the current scenario of probiotics and their prospective potential applications for functional foods for better health and nutrition of the society.
ISSN:0378-1097
1574-6968
DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02593.x