Probiotics & Nutraceuticals

Track: 13 Prebiotics

Unlike the case with probiotics, the concept of prebiotics was introduced as early as in 1995, but still the abstract definition is revolving around the Scientists and Regulators from the Food and Microbiology industry, and consumers and health professionals. The chemical definition of prebiotics states is as the “building block structures that pre-date living organisms.” The introductory definition has primarily included only the bacteria as states “a non-digestible food ingredient that beneficially affects the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon, and thus improves host health”. In 2008, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), defined a prebiotic as a “nonviable food component that confers a health benefit on the host associated with modulation of the microbiota”

Prebiotics help keep probiotics alive. We don't process prebiotics, which come primarily from oligosaccharides (complex starches), however probiotics adore them. Inulin and fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) are basic prebiotics. They are bottomless in the sustenance supply (expecting you eat genuine nourishment). Another prebiotic is Galacto-oligosaccharide (GOS), found in human breast milk. Prebiotics represented a third procedure to control the intestinal microbiota, or maybe than providing an exogenous wellspring of live microscopic organisms, prebiotics are non-digestible nourishment fixings that specifically empower the multiplication or potentially movement of attractive bacterial populaces officially inhabitant in the buyer's intestinal tract. Generally prebiotics recognized so far are non-digestible, fermentable starches. Intestinal populaces of bifidobacteria, specifically, are empowered to multiply upon utilization of a scope of prebiotics, expanding in numbers by as much as 10-100 overlay in defecation.