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- Title
Prospecting prebiotics, innovative evaluation methods, and their health applications: a review.
- Authors
Khangwal, Ishu; Shukla, Pratyoosh
- Abstract
Prebiotics are necessary natural and synthetic food ingredients that help in the growth and development of gut microflora. There is a complex relationship between gut dysbiosis and microbes, so alteration in both probiotics and prebiotics can reduce illness of gut, which further plays a decisive role in human health. The prebiotic efficiency can be validated using various in vitro and in vivo experiments, and this gives an important insight to this field. This review focuses on these aspects including the standardized assessment of prebiotics and its metabolic products for customary applications. This review has also summarized the mechanism of their beneficial actions such as immunomodulation, nutrient absorption, pathogen inhibition, etc., and its significance in human nutrition. In addition to this, some fascinating applications of prebiotics in health-related disorders have also discussed, with current challenges in this facet.
- Subjects
PREBIOTICS; EVALUATION methodology; PROBIOTICS; ARTIFICIAL foods; NATURAL foods; BIOCHEMICAL mechanism of action
- Publication
3 Biotech, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 5, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2190-572X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13205-019-1716-6