Author : Fabio Minervini
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889631478
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)
Book Synopsis Microorganisms for Functional Food, 2nd Edition by : Fabio Minervini
Download or read book Microorganisms for Functional Food, 2nd Edition written by Fabio Minervini and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, most of Western consumers are aware that a targeted diet could be an important tool for fighting ageing and diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Microorganisms may be exploited for setting up novel foods that, beside their nutritional value, may positively impact on consumers’ health. Some microorganisms may benefit host when ingested as viable cells carried by food and beverages. This falls in the intriguing field of probiotics, recently brought forward by the numerous probiotic claims rejected by the European Food Safety Authority. This research topic includes research articles and reviews/perspectives that (i) contribute to understand the mechanism underlying the health effects of probiotic microorganisms; (ii) show integrated approaches for selecting new probiotics; (iii) report about non-dairy food items as novel carriers of probiotics; and (iv) deal with biologically active compounds from microorganisms.