PREBIOTICS
A diverse category that includes carbohydrates, resistant starches, pectins and other beneficial ingredients
Global Prebiotic Association is working to raise awareness of the emerging, distinct health benefits of prebiotics.
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Continued awareness, education, affordability and effectiveness of prebiotics will provide consistent annual sales growth over the next decade. The time is now to organize as a broad, proactive industry.
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IN THE NEWS
Anxiolytic effects of a galacto-oligosaccharides prebiotic in healthy females (18–25 years) with corresponding changes in gut bacterial composition
Researchers, in a double blind placebo-controlled study, examined the effects of 7.5 grams of GOS (Biotis™) supplementation on healthy young females ages 18 to 25,
Noninvasive imaging and quantification of bile salt hydrolase activity: From bacteria to humans
Researchers at the University of Missouri have determined that microbiome produced enzyme Bile Salt Hydrolase (BSH) microbiome activity can be imaged and quantified directly in
Fermentation of Pleurotus ostreatus and Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms and their extracts by the gut microbiota of healthy and osteopenic women: potential prebiotic effect and impact of mushroom fermentation products on human osteoblasts
Researchers investigated the in vitro prebiotic potential of Ganoderma lucidum and Pleurotus ostreatus mushrooms in healthy and osteopenic women determining that mushrooms that are rich in beta-glucans may exert beneficial in vitro effects