Probiotics
eBook - ePub

Probiotics

Advanced Food and Health Applications

  1. 530 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Probiotics

Advanced Food and Health Applications

About this book

Probiotics: Advanced Food and Health ApplicationsĀ presents the functional properties and advanced technological aspects of probiotics for food formulation, nutrition, and health implications.Ā Specifically, the book addresses the fundamentals of probiotics, from their discovery to actual developments, the microbiological aspects of the main genus showing probiotic properties, the natural occurrence of probiotic strains in foods, the development of nutraceuticals based on probiotics, and the relationship of probioticsĀ toĀ health.Ā The book also includes a discussion on regulatory aspects.Ā  This book is an excellent resource for food scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmaceutical scientists,Ā and others workingĀ with probioticsĀ or studying related fields.Ā  - Introduces basic concepts on probiotics and describes the properties of main microorganisms with applications in probiotics - Provides a description on the natural presence of probiotics in different food matrixes and how probiotics can be developed for incorporation in food formulations - Offers advice on how probiotics can be used as nutritional input, along with their value on the preservation of healthy intestinal status, and their potential benefits in specific illnesses - Contains definitions, applications, literature reviews and recent developments - Includes a general introduction to the subject, taxonomy, biology, primary sources of probiotics and development of probiotics as food ingredients, human nutrition and health properties, and the use of high-throughput technologies in probiotics characterization

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Tables
  9. Chapter 1 : An introduction to probiotics
  10. Chapter 2 : Prebiotics and synbiotics
  11. Chapter 3 : Microorganisms with food applications as probiotics
  12. Chapter 4 : Beneficial microbes from human and animal intestines
  13. Chapter 5 : High-throughput technologies in probiotics science
  14. Chapter 6 : Probiotics in milk and dairy foods
  15. Chapter 7 : Probiotics in meat products
  16. Chapter 8 : Development of high-protein whey-based beverage rich in probiotics
  17. Chapter 9 : Effect of food ingredients on susceptible gut indigenous bacteria
  18. Chapter 10 : Encapsulation of probiotics
  19. Chapter 11 : Prospective applications of probiotics and prebiotics in foods
  20. Chapter 12 : Food-gut microbiota interactions
  21. Chapter 13 : Food-based probiotics: Functional dietary ingredients
  22. Chapter 14 : Probiotics in sports nutrition
  23. Chapter 15 : Impact of probiotic supplementation and the role of gut microbiome in obesity
  24. Chapter 16 : Immunomodulatory and antiinflammatory mechanisms of probiotics
  25. Chapter 17 : Probiotics and intestinal health
  26. Chapter 18 : Probiotics and urogenital health
  27. Chapter 19 : Probiotics and skin health
  28. Chapter 20 : Probiotics in the management of diabetes
  29. Chapter 21 : Probiotics in pediatrics
  30. Chapter 22 : Probiotics and the gut-brain axis
  31. Chapter 23 : Probiotics and the gut-liver axis
  32. Chapter 24 : Next-generation probiotics
  33. Index
  34. A