Handbook of prebiotics and probiotics ingredients : health benefits and food applications
The probiotics and prebiotics promote gastrointestinal health and proper immune function. But the challenge faced by researchers is to find those that are compatible with the formulation, processing, packaging, and distribution of functional foods. This title explores these variables and examines th...
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Analysis of dietary fiber and nondigestible carbohydrates
- 2. Short chain fructo-oligosaccharide : a low molecular weight fructan
- 3. Inulin and oligosaccharides : a special focus on human studies
- 4. Galacto-oligosaccharides
- 5. Functional disaccharides : lactulose, lactitol, and lactose
- 6. Natural resistant starches as prebiotics and synbiotics
- 7. AGE, ALE, RAGE, and disease : a food perspective
- 8. Lactic acid bacteria and plant fibers : treatment in acute and chronic human disease
- 9. Probiotics : recent human studies using lactobacillus casei strain shirota
- 10. Prebiotics and lipid metabolism
- 11. Fermentation of prebiotics and short-chain fatty acid production
- 12. Probiotics and prebiotics in inflammatory bowel disease
- 13. Prebiotics and probiotics in pediatric diarrheal disorders
- 14. Anticarcinogenic effects of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics
- 15. Prebiotics and probiotics in infant formulae
- 16. Probiotics and prebiotics in elderly individuals
- 17. Prebiotics and probiotics in companion animal nutrition
- 18. Probiotics : potential pharmaceutical applications