Probiotics and Prebiotics: Everything You Need to Know
Food ingredients that help support growth of probiotic bacteria” or “nondigestible substances that act as food for the gut microbiota. Essentially, prebiotics stimulates growth or activity of certain healthy bacteria (probiotic bacteria) that live in your body.
Prebiotic
Prebiotics are specific colonic nutrients, which are resistant to digestive processes in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract.
Functional Effects of Prebiotic
Disease risk reduction
Probiotic
According to WHO (2001) “Live micro-organisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host”.
Functional effects of probiotic
Disease risk reduction
Examples
Synbiotic products
“Combination of prebiotic and probiotic products.”