Although the scientific evidence has shown that the aging process may affect the composition and metabolic activity of human intestinal microbiota and its interaction with the immune system, this relationship still requires ...

The important role of lactic acid bacteria in the food and pharmaceutical industries highlights the requirement of appropriate preservation processes. During these processes, the decrease of water activity is the main cause ...

Arabinoxylans (AX) are part of dietary fiber. They are currently under study due to their potential prebiotic effect. Wheat whole grain flours contain all the grain layers and, therefore, present a higher arabinoxylan ...

In the present work the in vitro prebiotic activity of inulin-rich carbohydrates using Lactobacillus paracasei as probiotic microorganism was determined.With this purpose, inulin-rich carbohydrates samples from Jerusalem ...

Utilization of marine algae has increased considerably over the past decades, since biodiversity within brown, red and green marine algae offers possibilities of finding a variety of bioactive compounds. Marine algae are ...

Arabinoxylans are part of dietary fibre and have received attention given their emergent prebiotic character. Four arabinoxylans extracts were obtained from Argentinian soft and hard wheat. In vitro assays were performed ...

Prebiotics are non-digestible but fermentable oligosaccharides that can influence the composition and the activity of some intestinal bacteria to promote the health of the host. Smallanthus sonchifolius (yacon) contains ...

The potential of probiotic bacteria to produce prebiotic oligosaccharides by transgalactosylation has been minimally studied. In this work, we screened the β-galactosidase (β-gal) activity of dairy propionibacteria (PAB) ...