Vegan probiotic products: A modern tendency or the newest challenge in functional foods

TC Pimentel, WKA Da Costa, CE Barão… - Food Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegan consumers represent an attractive economic target for the food industry with demand
of products with health benefits, such as probiotic products. This review aimed to explore the …

Non-dairy fermented beverages as potential carriers to ensure probiotics, prebiotics, and bioactive compounds arrival to the gut and their health benefits

E Valero-Cases, D Cerdá-Bernad, JJ Pastor, MJ Frutos - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
In alignment with Hippocrates' aphorisms “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your
food” and “All diseases begin in the gut”, recent studies have suggested that healthy diets …

Safety of probiotics: functional fruit beverages and nutraceuticals

I Žuntar, Z Petric, D Bursać Kovačević, P Putnik - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, fruit juice consumption has increased. Their rise in popularity can be
attributed to the belief that they are a quick way to consuming a dietary portion of fruit …

Microbial exopolysaccharides: Resources and bioactive properties

H Yildiz, N Karatas - Process Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are present in all life forms and display multifarious biochemical structures.
They are important natural products, present in microorganisms, animals and plants and …

Current status of non-thermal processing of probiotic foods: A review

N Asaithambi, SK Singh, P Singha - Journal of Food Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Probiotic foods containing beneficial microorganisms have been in demand
due to improved digestion and gut environment upon consumption. Since thermal …

Technological strategies ensuring the safe arrival of beneficial microorganisms to the gut: From food processing and storage to their passage through the …

L Cassani, A Gomez-Zavaglia… - Food Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of functional foods containing probiotics has experienced a great boom in
the last years, reflected by the increasing number of novel products available at the market …

Probiotic-fortified fruit juices: Health benefits, challenges, and future perspective

Z Naseem, SA Mir, SM Wani, MA Rouf, I Bashir… - Nutrition, 2023 - Elsevier
Consumers' growing interest in using foods that improve health has motivated researchers
and the food industry to develop new functional products, such as foods containing …

[HTML][HTML] Functional orange juice with Lactobacillus casei and tocotrienol-enriched flaxseed oil co-encapsulation: Physicochemical properties, probiotic viability …

M Sultana, ES Chan, P Janarthanan, WS Choo - Lwt, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aimed to co-encapsulate Lactobacillus casei and tocotrienol-enriched flaxseed oil
in calcium alginate-carboxymethyl cellulose hydrogel beads (CA-CMC) for application in …

Novel functional blueberries: Fructo-oligosaccharides and probiotic lactobacilli incorporated into alginate edible coatings

MF Bambace, MV Alvarez… - Food Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Minimally processed fruits are an alternative to dairy products to deliver probiotics. Bio-
protection against several factors that affect their viability has been proposed in the food …

Probiotic delivery through non-dairy plant-based food matrices

DMD Rasika, JK Vidanarachchi, SF Luiz, DRP Azeredo… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Probiotics are live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a
health benefit on the host. Traditionally, dairy products are the major and most popular …