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Advances in Nanonutraceuticals: Indian Scenario
Published in Harishkumar Madhyastha, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Nanopharmaceuticals in Regenerative Medicine, 2022
Amthul Azeez, Mubeen Sultana, Lucky, Noorjahan
An additional class of food components known as synbiotics are known to impact human health in a positive way. A combination of prebiotics and probiotics creates a synergistic effect or synergism on the human health and is therefore referred to as synbiotics. These compounds selectively promote the growth of microorganisms, advantageous for the host digestive system, and help in promoting the overall wellbeing of the humans.
Military nutrition research: Contemporary issues, state of the science and future directions
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2022
J. Philip Karl, Lee M. Margolis, Joanne L. Fallowfield, Robert B. Child, Nicola M. Martin, James P. McClung
The austere environments and physiologic demands under which many military operations occur can also increase exposure to microbial pathogens, and suppress immune function, thereby increasing illness and infection risk. Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer health benefits while prebiotics are nutrients such as functional fibres and plant-based compounds known as polyphenols that support growth of specific gut bacteria to produce health benefits. In civilian settings, specific probiotic strains and prebiotic fibres and polyphenols have been shown to improve immune responses to pathogens and decrease risk or severity of various infections (e.g. respiratory, gastrointestinal) (Karl, 2021). Probiotics and prebiotics may also protect gastrointestinal barrier integrity during oxidative stress, and have been investigated for effects on physical and cognitive performance, albeit with mixed results (Agans et al., 2020). As a result, probiotics, prebiotics and their combinations, known as synbiotics, are garnering increased interest as potential nutrition countermeasures against the effects of extreme operational environments.
Conductive hydro drying through refractance window drying – An alternative technique for drying of Lactobacillus plantarum (NCIM 2083)
Published in Drying Technology, 2020
K. S. Yoha, J. A. Moses, C. Anandharamakrishnan
Probiotics along with prebiotics are termed ‘synbiotics’, referring to a synergistic approach that facilitates being resistant to strong acid and bile conditions. Synbiotics not only improve survival of beneficial microorganisms in food, but also stimulate the proliferation of specific native bacterial strains present in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.[10] Probiotic food products can be prepared without off-flavor, off-texture, and off-appeal after addition of functional ingredients.[11] Prebiotics are suitable coating materials because they are stable at upper GI conditions. Generally, prebiotics are non-digestible oligosaccharides that support probiotic delivery in the colon, thus improving intestinal health.[12] Fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) is a low molecular weight short-chain carbohydrate that plays a major role in enhancement of intestinal microbiota, improving growth, and metabolic activities of probiotics.[13] Stickiness limits its application and this is mainly due to low glass transition temperature.[14] Rajam and Anandharamakrishnan[15] reported that a combination of FOS with high molecular weight agents such as whey protein (WP) isolate can effectively facilitate encapsulation of probiotic bacteria such as L. plantarum by reducing stickiness issues.
Effect of Cordyceps militaris on formation of short-chain fatty acids as postbiotic metabolites
Published in Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2022
Gizem Omak, Lutfiye Yilmaz-Ersan
In recent years, studies have focused on how novel synbiotics, which are synergistic mixtures of probiotics and prebiotics, positively affects human health and their functional fermentation metabolites like SCFAs. As well as containing many different nutritional and nutraceutical components, mushrooms also exhibit medicinal benefits including anticancer, antiobesity, antihypertensive, anticholesterol, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, antidiabetic, antiproliferative, neuro protective effects, in addition to helping to prevent and treat chronic diseases.[9–14] However, among new potential prebiotics, mushrooms are receiving increasing attention due to their economic and environmental value. As they contain essential prebiotic components such as polysaccharides (chitin, hemicellulose, α-β-glucans, β-(1→3)-d-glucans,), short-chain sugars (glucose, galactose, fructose, and N-acetylglucosamine), polysaccharide–peptide/protein complexes, proteoglycans, and mucoproteins, they play a vital role on the activity and viability of probiotics and the formation of secondary metabolites in the synbiotic utilization. The prebiotic properties of different mushrooms including Auricularia auricula-judae, Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus abalonus, Pleurotus citrinopileatus, Pleurotus djamor, Pleurotus eryngii, Pleurotus florida, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus sajor-caju, Lentinula edodes stipe, Flammulina velutipes, Schizophylum commune Fr, Volvariella volvacea, Ganoderma lucidum, and Lentinus edodes have also been studied.[9,10,12,15–25]