Prebiotics
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- Created on: 02-04-14 10:51
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- Prebiotics
- Definition: Non-digestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon
- Characteristics
- Dietary ingredient that reaches the colon in an intact form
- Has a specific metabolism directed towards advantageous rather than adverse bacteria
- Active at nutritionally feasible dose
- Lack of side effects
- Persistent throughout the colon
- Sources
- Typically found in plant material, such as seeds and tubers
- Non-digestible oligosaccharides
- They have also been detected in cholostrum/human milk
- Health benefits
- Similar to those of Probiotics
- Production of SCFAs
- Improves mineral absorption and balance
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