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The current trends and future perspectives of prebiotics research: A review

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Patel, Seema, Goyal, Arun·2012·3 Biotech

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Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that stimulate the growth of bifidogenic and lactic acid bacteria in the gastro-intestinal tract. Typically, the prebiotics consist of dietary fibers and oligosaccharides. Prebiotics exert a plethora of health-promoting effects, owing to which multi million food and pharma industries have been established. Prebiotics are being implicated in starter culture formulation, gut health maintenance, colitis prevention, cancer inhibition, immunopotentiaton, cholesterol removal, reduction of cardiovascular disease, prevention of obesity and constipation, bacteriocin production, use in fishery, poultry, pig, cattle feed and pet food. Looking at the ever-increasing demand of prebiotics, in this review, recent trends in prebiotic production from new novel sources, from food industrial wastes, prebiotic supplementation in food, commercially available prebiotic agents, prebiotic production by various techniques and future perspectives has been discussed. The critical insight into this hot research area aims to stimulate further ponderance.

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Authors
Patel, S., & Goyal, A.
Affiliations
  • Lovely Professional University (IN)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IN)
Corresponding author
Patel, Seema
Venue
3 Biotech
Published
2012-01-28
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
115-125
ISSN
  • 2190-572X (ISSN-L)
  • 2190-5738
OpenAlex
W2075256409
Cited by
256
References
100
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • 3 Biotech (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
Keywords
prebiotics, dietary fiber, oligosaccharides, lactic acid bacteria, gut health, colitis prevention, cancer inhibition, immunopotentiation, cholesterol lowering, cardiovascular disease, obesity, constipation, bacteriocin production, prebiotic supplementation

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