Highlights•Functional food definition and health benefits were approached.•Probiotics and
prebiotics are important functional ingredients with texturizing properties.•Food texture may …

Nowadays, food is no longer just for nutrition. Consumers are more demanding and expect
to get health benefits from their daily meals. Various areas of the food industry are in great …

Highlights•Bioactive compounds are an interesting approach to improve food
properties.•Prebiotics, carotenoids and phenolics have been used for several food …

Cheese is a product of ancient biotechnological practices, which has been revolutionized as
a functional food product in many parts of the world. Bioactive compounds, such as peptides …

Background Probiotics are microorganisms that promote beneficial health effects. To do this,
they must survive passage through the gastrointestinal tract, adhere and colonize in the …

Prebiotics are compounds naturally present in some foods or can be synthesized by
microorganisms and enzymes. Among the benefits associated with prebiotic consumption …

Egg yolk is a source of proteins that can be used to develop novel food packaging material.
In this study, three different bioactive films were developed using delipidated egg yolk …

Numerous health benefits have been reported from the consumption of cranberry-derived
products, and recent studies have identified bioactive polysaccharides and oligosaccharides …

Cellulose is a kind of dietary fiber that resists digestion and absorption in the human body. In
addition to health benefits of cellulose ingestion with regard to body weight management …

The purpose of the present review is to explore the research about synbiotic food diversity,
as well as the probiotics and prebiotics concentration used there in, and the different tests …