Human breast milk is considered the optimum feeding regime for newborn infants due to its
ability to provide complete nutrition and many bioactive health factors. Breast feeding is …

Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms. Due to the
immense range of habitats that fungi inhabit, and the consequent need to compete against a …

Prebiotics and probiotics play a positive role in promoting human nutrition and health.
Prebiotics are compounds that cannot be digested by the host, but can be used and …

Humans are a unique reservoir of heterogeneous and vivacious group of microbes, which
together forms the human-microbiome superorganism. Human gut serves as a home to over …

Probiotics confer immunological protection to the host through the regulation, stimulation,
and modulation of immune responses. Researchers have shifted their attention to better …

The brain–gut–microbiome axis is a bidirectional communication pathway between the gut
microbiota and the central nervous system. The growing interest in the gut microbiota and …

Prebiotics are a group of biological nutrients that are capable of being degraded by
microflora in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), primarily Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. When …

Background Twelves categories of active ingredients have been recognised to enhance
human health. They are to some extent susceptible to certain conditions such as heat, light …

Prebiotics are indigestible fibers that increase beneficial gut commensal bacteria resulting in
improvements of the host's health. The beneficial effects of prebiotics are due to the …

Increasing interest in functional foods has driven discovery in the area of bioactive
compounds. Prebiotics are non-digestible carbohydrate compounds that, when consumed …