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Prebiotics—Clinical relevance

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Title Statement Prebiotics—Clinical relevance
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Chowdhary, S
Das, Shreya
Bhattacharjee, Dipanwita
Saha, P K
Mukharjee, S
Bhattacharyya, B K; East India Pharmaceutical Works Ltd
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Prebiotics, Non digestible oligosaccharides, Fructo-oligosaccharides, Galacto-oligosaccharides, Lactic acid bacteria.
 
Summary, etc. <p>Prebiotics are dietary substances that mostly consist of non-starch polysaccharides and oligosaccharides that nurture a selected group of microorganisms residing in the human intestine. These components are poorly hydrolyzed by our digestive enzymes. Prebiotics preferentially favour the growth of probiotic organisms like <em>Lactobacillus</em> and <em>Bifidobacterium</em> that are helpful in gut health maintenance, colitis prevention, cancer inhibition, immunopotentiation, cholesterol removal, reduction of cardiovascular disease, prevention of obesity and constipation. The natural sources of prebiotics are certain fruits and vegetables like asparagus, banana, chicory, garlic, onion, wheat and tomato. Considering increasing market demand of prebiotics, commercial production of them is standardized from wastes of food industries as well as from other sources. Due to their therapeutic support and history of safe use, fructo-oligosaccharides and galacto-oligosaccharides are now widely used for pharmaceutical formulations, combined with probiotics.</p>
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (IJNPR) [Formerly Natural Product Radiance (NPR)]
2015-12-14 15:51:40
 
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http://op.niscair.res.in/index.php/IJNPR/article/view/5684
 
Data Source Entry Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (IJNPR) [Formerly Natural Product Radiance (NPR)]; ##issue.vol## 6, ##issue.no## 2 (2015): June 2015
 
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