Prebiotics and Probiotics Science and Technology, 2 Vols.

About this book

• A comprehensive overview on the advances in the field of prebiotics and probiotics
• Presents the science underpinning the probiotic and prebiotic effects

Prebiotic and Probiotic Science and Technology provides a comprehensive overview on the advances in the field of prebiotics and probiotics. This volume presents the science underpinning the probiotic and prebiotic effects, the latest in vivo studies, the technological issues in the development and manufacture of these types of products, and the regulatory issues involved. It is structured so that it covers all aspects of the topics in a logical manner, avoiding replication. This book will be a useful reference for both scientists and technologists working in academic and governmental institutes, and the industry.

Written for: Scientists and technologists working in academic and governmental institutes, food scientists and researchers, nutritionists, microbiologists, health professionals

Keywords:

• food science
• food technology
• prebiotic science
• prebiotics
• probiotics

Table of contents

1 Using probiotics and prebiotics to manage the gastrointestinal tract ecosystem

2 Molecular tools for investigating the gut microflora

3 Post-genomics approaches towards monitoring changes within the microbial ecology of the gut

4 Designing trials for testing the efficacy of pre- pro- and synbiotics

5 Mechanisms of prebiotic impact on health

6 Fructan prebiotics derived from inulin

7 Galacto-oligosaccharide prebiotics

8 Prebiotic potential of xylo-oligosaccharides

9 Resistant starch and starch-derived oligosaccharides as prebiotics

10 Oligosaccharides derived from sucrose

11 Prebiotic potential of polydextrose

12 Prebiotics in companion and livestock animal nutrition

13 Analysis of prebiotic oligosaccharides

14 Manufacture of prebiotics from biomass sources

15 Taxonomy of probiotic microorganisms

16 Ecological interactions of bacteria in the human gut

17 Genomics of probiotic bacteria

18 Manufacture of probiotic bacteria

19 Some technological challenges in the addition of probiotic bacteria to foods

20 Micro-encapsulation of probiotics

21 Probiotics and antibiotic-associated diarrhea and clostridium difficile infection

22 Probiotics for infectious diarrhea and traveler’s diarrhea - What do we really know?

23 Immunological effects of probiotics and their significance to human health

24 Probiotics and chronic gastrointestinal disease

25 Probiotics and allergy

26 Potential protective effects of probiotics and prebiotics against colorectal cancer

27 Urogential applications of probiotic bacteria

28 Prebiotics and probiotics and oral health

29 Development of mucosal vaccines based on lactic acid bacteria

30 Application of pre- and probiotics in livestock

31 Safety assesment of probiotics