TitleBioactive foods in promoting health : probiotics and prebiotics / edited by Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy
Imprint Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2010
Edition 1st ed
Descript xix, 617 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Introduction and overview : Production cultures and their incorporation into foods ; Assessment of prebiotics and probiotics: an overview ; Safety of probiotic bacteria -- Prebiotics in health promotion : Pre and probiotics in liver health and function ; Prebiotics as infant foods ; Prebiotics in the gastrointestinal tract -- Prebiotics and probiotics as therapies : Prebiotics and probiotics for the prevention or treatment of allergic asthma ; Probiotics and prebiotics: effects on diarrhea ; Probiotics and AIDS treatment -- Probiotics and health : Probiotics and prebiotics in metabolic disorders and obesity ; Probiotics and H. pylori infection ; Foo formulation to increase probiotic bacteria action or population -- Animal models to study probiotics : Human flora-associated animals as a model for studying probiotics and prebiotics ; GI bacteria change in animal models due to prebiotics ; Probiotic treatment of colitis in animal models and people


SUBJECT

  1. Functional foods
  2. Vegetables in human nutrition
  3. Fruit in human nutrition

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