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Potential Health Benefits of Combining Yogurt and Fruits Based on Their Probiotic and Prebiotic Properties

Melissa Anne Fernandez, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 1
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There is sufficient evidence to warrant further exploration into the potential synergistic health benefits of a combined intake of fruit and yogurt, which could provide probiotics, prebiotics, high-quality protein, important fatty acids, and a mixture of vitamins and minerals.
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This article is published in Advances in Nutrition.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 97 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prebiotic & Probiotic.

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Moringa extract enhances the fermentative, textural, and bioactive properties of yogurt

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effects of moringa on the fermentation, quality characteristics, and bioactive properties of yogurt and found that the addition of ME to yogurt significantly accelerated the rate of fermentation by promoting growth of lactic acid bacteria.
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Fermented Dairy Products, Probiotic Supplementation, and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

TL;DR: Results should be interpreted with caution due to the heterogeneity of the studies and the different probiotic strains used in the studies, but probiotic supplementation added into dairy matrices could be considered beneficial for lowering lipid concentrations and reducing anthropometric parameters.
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Lactose intolerance: Analysis of underlying factors.

TL;DR: The degree of lactose digestion and orocecal transit time (OCTT) are studied as possible causes for the variability of symptoms of lactOSE intolerance in a sample of a population with genetically determined low lactase activity.
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Antioxidant, physicochemical, microbiological, and sensory properties of probiotic yoghurt incorporated with various Annona species pulp.

TL;DR: Soursop can be used to produce probiotic yoghurt with enhanced physicochemical, microbiological and sensory properties and sensory evaluation results showed that yoghurts containing soursop fruit pulp had better sensory scores than other treatments.
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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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Effects on Blood Pressure of Reduced Dietary Sodium and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet

TL;DR: The effect of different levels of dietary sodium, in conjunction with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, which is rich in vegetables, fruits, and low-fat dairy products, in persons with and in those without hypertension is studied.
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