Probiotics: Advanced Food and Health Applications

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Probiotics: Advanced Food and Health Applications presents the functional properties and advanced technological aspects of probiotics for food formulation, nutrition, and health implications. Specifically, the book addresses the fundamentals of probiotics, from their discovery to actual developments, the microbiological aspects of the main genus showing probiotic properties, the natural occurrence of probiotic strains in foods, the development of nutraceuticals based on probiotics, and the relationship of probiotics to health. The book also includes a discussion on regulatory aspects. 

This book is an excellent resource for food scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmaceutical scientists, and others working with probiotics or studying related fields. 

Introduces basic concepts on probiotics and describes the properties of main microorganisms with applications in probioticsProvides a description on the natural presence of probiotics in different food matrixes and how probiotics can be developed for incorporation in food formulationsOffers advice on how probiotics can be used as nutritional input, along with their value on the preservation of healthy intestinal status, and their potential benefits in specific illnessesContains definitions, applications, literature reviews and recent developmentsIncludes a general introduction to the subject, taxonomy, biology, primary sources of probiotics and development of probiotics as food ingredients, human nutrition and health properties, and the use of high-throughput technologies in probiotics characterization

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Academic Press; 1st edition (December 20, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 530 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0323851703
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0323851701
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.07 x 11 inches