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Prebiotics as functional foods: A review

Sadeq Hasan Al-Sheraji, +7 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 4, pp 1542-1553
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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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This article is published in Journal of Functional Foods.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 436 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prebiotic & Functional food.

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Prebiotics: Definition, Types, Sources, Mechanisms, and Clinical Applications

Dorna Davani-Davari, +7 more
- 09 Mar 2019 - 
TL;DR: Health benefits of prebiotics and their safety, as well as their production and storage advantages compared to probiotics, they seem to be fascinating candidates for promoting human health condition as a replacement or in association with probiotics.
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Marine Bioactive Compounds and Their Health Benefits: A Review

Imen Hamed, +3 more
- 01 Jul 2015 - 
TL;DR: This review is an update to the information about recent functional seafood compounds (proteins, peptides, amino acids, fatty acids, sterols, polysaccharides, oligosaccharides), focusing on their potential use and health benefits.
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Sheep Milk: Physicochemical Characteristics and Relevance for Functional Food Development

Celso F. Balthazar, +14 more
- 01 Mar 2017 - 
TL;DR: The characteristics and advantages of sheep Milk as a potentially functional food, as well as the development of sheep milk dairy products containing prebiotics and/or probiotics are addressed.
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Designing biopolymer microgels to encapsulate, protect and deliver bioactive components: Physicochemical aspects.

David Julian McClements
- 01 Feb 2017 - 
TL;DR: The major constituents and fabrication methods that can be used to prepare microgels are reviewed, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, and how these parameters can be manipulated to control the physicochemical properties and functional attributes of microgel suspensions are described.
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Differences in Susceptibility to Heat Stress along the Chicken Intestine and the Protective Effects of Galacto-Oligosaccharides.

Soheil Varasteh, +4 more
- 24 Sep 2015 - 
TL;DR: Differences in susceptibility to heat stress along the intestine are demonstrated, where the most obvious modification in gene expression is observed in ileum, while dietary GOS only prevent the heat stress-related changes in jejunum.
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Glenn R. Gibson, +1 more
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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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David L. Topping, +1 more
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Glenn R. Gibson, +3 more
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This contribution reviews bioactives from food sources with prebiotic properties.