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Non-digestible oligosaccharides: A review

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Non-digestible oligosaccharides possess important physicochemical and physiological properties, and are claimed to behave as dietary fibers and prebiotics, which gives opportunity for improving of gut microecology including bacterial populations, biochemical profiles and physiological effects.
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This article is published in Carbohydrate Polymers.The article was published on 2007-04-05 and is currently open access. It has received 682 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prebiotic.

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Role of gastrointestinal microbiota in fish

TL;DR: The involvement of GI microbiota in fish nutrition, epithelial development, immunity as well as disease outbreak, and the need for manipulating the gut microbiota with useful beneficial microbes through probiotic, prebiotic and synbiotic concepts for better fish health management are indicated.
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Prebiotics in aquaculture: a review

TL;DR: To fully conclude on the effects of adding prebiotics in fish diets, more research efforts are needed to provide the aquaculture industry, the scientific community, the regulatory bodies and the general public with the necessary information and tools.
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Marine Bioactives as Functional Food Ingredients: Potential to Reduce the Incidence of Chronic Diseases

TL;DR: The marine environment represents a relatively untapped source of functional ingredients that can be applied to various aspects of food processing, storage, and fortification and the prevention of chronic diseases.
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Prebiotics as functional foods: A review

TL;DR: This contribution reviews bioactives from food sources with prebiotic properties, and food application of bioactive prebiotics, stimulation of the viability of probiotics, health benefits, epidemiological studies, and safety concerns ofPrebiotics are reviewed.
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An overview of the last advances in probiotic and prebiotic field

TL;DR: The present review summarizes guidelines reported on the literature in regard to clinician or therapeutic trials of probiotic and prebiotic.
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Dietary Modulation of the Human Colonic Microbiota: Introducing the Concept of Prebiotics

TL;DR: By combining the rationale of pro- and prebiotics, the concept of synbiotics is proposed to characterize some colonic foods with interesting nutritional properties that make these compounds candidates for classification as health-enhancing functional food ingredients.
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Cyclodextrins and their uses: a review

TL;DR: Cyclodextrins are a family of cyclic oligosaccharides composed of α-(1,4) linked glucopyranose subunits.
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Enzymatic production and biological activities of chitosan oligosaccharides (COS): A review

TL;DR: This review has summarized different enzymatic preparation methods of COS and some of their reported biological activities, such as antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, and immunostimulant effects are depend on their physico-chemical properties.
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Application of cereals and cereal components in functional foods: a review.

TL;DR: It could be concluded that functional foods based on cereals is a challenging perspective, however, the development of new technologies of cereal processing that enhance their health potential and the acceptability of the food product are of primary importance.
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Production, properties and applications of food-grade oligosaccharides

TL;DR: Oligosaccharides are relatively new functional food ingredients that have great potential to improve the quality of many foods and provide useful modifications to food flavour and physicochemical characteristics as discussed by the authors.
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