Processing effects on the nutritional advancement of probiotics and prebiotics

Abstract

Investigates the processing effects on the nutritional advancement of probiotics and prebiotics. Efforts of health researchers to overcome difficulties that impact on the performance of functional foods; Importance of characterizing the interactions between probiotics and prebiotics in starter cultures or in functional foods prior to human consumption; Role of prebiotics on the viability and stability of probiotic cultures within food matrices during processing and storage.