Functional Foods and Feeds: Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics

摘要: Foods, beyond their nutritional value, are increasingly perceived in connection with disease prevention and physical mental well-being. Functional foods defined basic terms as “foods that may provide health benefits nutrition.” An underlying premise is functional foods, not medicine. Although primarily a problem of developed societies, problems associated modern eating habits having profound impact on developing countries well, where deleterious effects likely to be more evident because economic constraints. then responses the global change lifestyle. The market for has been steadily growing last decades, representing both an opportunity challenge food producers willing meet such demand conquer consumer acceptance. Probiotics prebiotics outstanding components whose social impact, physiological effects, technological development core subject this chapter.