MAIN PREBIOTICS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HUMAN NUTRITION
Abstract
Because of the current scientific and commercial interest on functional foods, the present article reviews the main human health effects described after prebiotics consumption, considerate as functional ingredients. A special attention is paid to the use of non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDO) for being considered as prebiotic components. Within NDO group, fructooligosaccharides, galactooligosaccharides and soybean oligosaccharides have been the components more widely studied and they have shown to have a strong prebiotic effect.Downloads
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