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.About:
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.read more
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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
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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
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Prebiotics as functional foods: A review
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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
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Dietary Modulation of the Human Colonic Microbiota: Introducing the Concept of Prebiotics
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Cyclodextrins and their uses: a review
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Application of cereals and cereal components in functional foods: a review.
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Production, properties and applications of food-grade oligosaccharides
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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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