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Handbook of Prebiotics and Probiotics Ingredients
Health Benefits and Food Applications
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Handbook of Prebiotics and Probiotics Ingredients
Health Benefits and Food Applications
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Analysis of Dietary Fiber and Nondigestible Carbohydrates
- PART I: Sources of Prebiotics
- Chapter 2. Short-Chain Fructo-Oligosaccharide: A Low Molecular Weight Fructan
- Chapter 3. Inulin and Oligosaccharides: A Special Focus on Human Studies
- Chapter 4. Galacto-Oligosaccharides
- Chapter 5. Functional Disaccharides: Lactulose, Lactitol, and Lactose
- Chapter 6. Natural Resistant Starches as Prebiotics and Synbiotics
- Chapter 7. AGE, ALE, RAGE, and Disease: A Food Perspective
- PART II: Sources of Probiotics
- Chapter 8. Lactic Acid Bacteria and Plant Fibers: Treatment in Acute and Chronic Human Disease
- Chapter 9. Probiotics: Recent Human Studies Using Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota
- PART III: Physiological Functions of Prebiotics and Probiotics
- Chapter 10. Prebiotics and Lipid Metabolism
- Chapter 11. Fermentation of Prebiotics and Short- Chain Fatty Acid Production
- Chapter 12. Probiotics and Prebiotics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Chapter 13. Prebiotics and Probiotics in Pediatric Diarrheal Disorders
- Chapter 14. Anticarcinogenic Effects of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics
- Chapter 15. Prebiotics and Probiotics in Infant Formulae
- Chapter 16. Probiotics and Prebiotics in Elderly Individuals
- Chapter 17. Prebiotics and Probiotics in Companion Animal Nutrition
- Chapter 18. Probiotics: Potential Pharmaceutical Applications
- Index
- Back cover
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