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Probiotics as functional foods: documented health benefits

Probiotics as functional foods: documented health benefits Purpose – Probiotics confer protection against pathogens owing to their capability to compete with pathogens or their displacement by adhering to intestinal epithelial cells. Diverse health benefits extended by probiotics led to their application as functional foods. The aim of this paper is to explore probiotics as functional foods. Design/methodology/approach – Endeavour has been made to explore prerequisites for a cultured milk product to be called as a probiotics food. Potentiality of probiotics for their exploitation as functional foods has also been delineated. Findings – Probiotics demonstrate various prophylactic properties and their efficacy are influenced by strain of cultures employed. Probiotics confer diverse human health benefits such as normalization of intestinal flora, anticarcinogenesis, hypocholesterolemic effect, alleviation of lactose malabsorption and allergy. Beneficial properties of probiotics suggest their application as functional foods. Originality/value – Ingestion of cultured milk products containing probiotic cultures may provide health benefits and could be recommended for consumption as functional foods. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nutrition & Food Science Emerald Publishing

Probiotics as functional foods: documented health benefits

Nutrition & Food Science , Volume 43 (2): 9 – Mar 22, 2013

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0034-6659
DOI
10.1108/00346651311313445
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Abstract

Purpose – Probiotics confer protection against pathogens owing to their capability to compete with pathogens or their displacement by adhering to intestinal epithelial cells. Diverse health benefits extended by probiotics led to their application as functional foods. The aim of this paper is to explore probiotics as functional foods. Design/methodology/approach – Endeavour has been made to explore prerequisites for a cultured milk product to be called as a probiotics food. Potentiality of probiotics for their exploitation as functional foods has also been delineated. Findings – Probiotics demonstrate various prophylactic properties and their efficacy are influenced by strain of cultures employed. Probiotics confer diverse human health benefits such as normalization of intestinal flora, anticarcinogenesis, hypocholesterolemic effect, alleviation of lactose malabsorption and allergy. Beneficial properties of probiotics suggest their application as functional foods. Originality/value – Ingestion of cultured milk products containing probiotic cultures may provide health benefits and could be recommended for consumption as functional foods.

Journal

Nutrition & Food ScienceEmerald Publishing

Published: Mar 22, 2013

Keywords: Probiotic; Functional foods; Milk; Personal health

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