Functional foods prebiotics

ROBERFROID M B (2000) Prebiotics and probiotics are they functional foods dm J Clin Nutr 11 1682S-90S. 

Two types of functional food are not designed to provide us with dietary components, but to provide food for the microbes that inhabit our gut. These are the so-called probiotic and prebiotic foods. The former are meant to introduce better bacteria into our intestines, while the latter feed the bacteria that are already there in the hope of boosting more of the good bacteria and thereby helping them crowd out the bad bacteria. Various health claims have been made for these foods. 

Gibson, G.R. and Ottaway, R.A. (2000) Prebiotics New Developments in Functional Foods, Chandos Publishing, Oxford. 

The demand for healthy foods has led to the development of several entirely new healthy ingredient and additive categories (Heasman and Mellentin 2001 Sloan 2004). An entirely new sector of functional food ingredients has developed, including products such as omega-3 fatty acids and phytosterols for cardiovascular health, prebiotics and probiotics for gut health, antioxidants, polyphenols and phytochemicals, and bioactive peptides. The established vitamins and minerals sector has also benefited from this functional food trend, with more and more products being fortified with beneficial vitamins and minerals. 

De Vuyst L, Avonts L, Makras E (2004) Probotics, prebiotics and gut health (Chap. 17). In Remade C, Reusens B (eds) Functional foods, ageing and degenerative disease. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK... 

Keywords Caramel, Difructose dianhydrides, Fructose, Functional foods, Inulin, Prebiotics, Sucrose... 

Roberfroid M. Functional food concept and its application to prebiotics. Dig Liver Dis 2002 ... 

Prebiotics and probiotics are an area of growing scientific interest for the development and production of fnnctional foods. " The terms prebiotics and probiotics themselves reveal important implications for hnman health that may result from their use and that are related to the intestinal microbiota. In fact, the target organ of the action of these ingredients is the intestines, but indirectly the whole body is the real beneficiary of their effects. The function of prebiotics and probiotics is to promote the proliferation and the balance of the bacterial composition that constitutes the intestinal ecosystem. The intestinal microbiota is made of hundreds of different bacterial species, whose multiple metabolic activities affect the state of health of the host. 

Ziemer, C. J. Gibson, G. R., An overview of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics in the functional food concept Perspectives and future strategies. International Dairy Journal (1998) 8,473-479. 

The consumer demand on the functional foods increases as they promote the gut health and decrease the risk of diseases. The functional foods are categorized into three groups based on their mechanism of action as probiotics, prebiotics, and biogenics (Mitsuoka, 2002). The chitooligosaccharides can also be applied as functional foods in the food industry as they have the capacity to act as a... 

Al-Sheraji SH, Ismail A, Manap MY, Mustafa S,Yusof RM, Hassan FA. Prebiotics as functional foods a review.J Fund Foods 2013 5(4) 1542—53. 

FIGURE 5.1 Health effects associated with dietary supplementation with prebiotic functional foods. 

SHAPING THE HUMAN MICROBIOME WITH PREBIOTIC FOODS TABLE 5.2 Human Dietary Interventions with Prebotic Functional Foods ... 

Corradini, C., Lantano, C., and Cavazza, A. (2013) Innovative analytical tools to characterize prebiotic carbohydrates of functional food interest. Anal Bioanal Chem., 405(13), 4591-4605. 

Gibson, G.R. and Fuller, R., The role of probiotics and prebiotics in the functional food concept, in Functional Foods. The Consumer, the Products and the Evidence, Sadler, M.J. and Saltmarsh, M. (Eds.), The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1998, 3-4. 

Another class of functional foods is prebiotics and probiotics. A prebiotic is defined as a nondigestible food ingredient that beneficially affects the host by selectively stimulating the growth or activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon. An example of a prebiotic is the inulin-type fructans. Despite the limited work done with prebiotics, studies with these inulin-type fructans have generated... 

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