Future probiotic foods

Functional foods in the USA: emphasis on probiotic foods

The role that functional foods might play in enhancing human health is continuing to develop. Comprehensive approaches, which will enable scientists both to understand the total human physiological response to diet (through application of human genomics and metabolomics) and evaluate health maintenance rather than disease incidence, will advance this field greatly. In the United States, functio...

Future of Fermented Foods

Probiotic bacteria in fermented foods: product characteristics and starter organisms.

Probiotic bacteria are sold mainly in fermented foods, and dairy products play a predominant role as carriers of probiotics. These foods are well suited to promoting the positive health image of probiotics for several reasons: 1) fermented foods, and dairy products in particular, already have a positive health image; 2) consumers are familiar with the fact that fermented foods contain living mi...

Development of New Products: Probiotics and Probiotic Foods

Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer a beneficial effect on the host when administered in proper amounts [1, 2]. Their beneficial effects on gastrointestinal infections, the reduction of serum cholesterol, the protection of the immune system, anti-cancer properties, antimutagenic action, anti-diarrheal properties, the improvement in inflammatory bowel disease and suppression of Helico...

Genetic engineering: the future of foods?