Since the early observations of Elie Metchnikoff, a wealth of experiments have described the
use of selected microorganisms, mainly belonging to the lactic acid bacteria family, for the …

Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics have been extensively investigated in the past few
decades for several health benefits imparted by them. These are commonly known as …

Consumers are conscientiously changing their eating preferences toward healthier options,
such as functional foods enriched with pre-and probiotics. Prebiotics are attractive bioactive …

Over the years, probiotics have been extensively studied within the medical, pharmaceutical,
and food fields, as it has been revealed that these microorganisms can provide health …

Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a
health benefit on the host. The probiotic microorganisms most commonly used in the food …

Probiotics and prebiotics play an important role in human nutrition. In recent years there has
been a significant increase in research on the characterization and verification potential …

In recent years, new probiotic-related concepts such as postbiotics and paraprobiotics have
been coined to indicate that non-viable microorganisms or bacterial-free extracts may …

Several scientific evidence has shown the advantageous effects of probiotic-derived
metabolites on human health. Postbiotics are a wide range of bioactive compounds derived …

Probiotic bacteria are sold mainly in fermented foods, and dairy products play a predominant
role as carriers of probiotics. Functional dairy foods are well suited to promoting the positive …