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Boning Up and Heading Back to School
HealthNewsDigest.com, NY -
Bone-healthy foods include foods rich in calcium, along with those enhanced with prebiotics. A prebiotic is a non-digestible, soluble fiber that can ...

Malaysia Star
Have fewer sick days!
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Aug 2, 2008
On the other hand, synbiotics is a term used to describe a combination of prebiotics and probiotics. There are clinical studies on young children to show ...
Making Sense of Yogurt Choices
Food Consumer, IL - Aug 2, 2008
Prebiotics. Several yogurt manufacturers now go a step further by adding prebiotics to their products. Prebiotics are carbohydrates that feed probiotic ...
Prebiotics winning American consumer confidence
Australian Food, Australia - Jul 28, 2008
Prebiotics, known for their ability to improve intestinal regularity, appear to be slowly stepping out of the shadow of probiotics as more options become ...
Echo Health - The Right Formula
RedOrbit, TX - Aug 1, 2008
By Barry Nelson Q If I started feeding my baby formula milk with added prebiotics, is she less likely to develop allergies? ...
All-natural cottage cheese with probotics and prebiotics
Food Processing, IL - Jul 17, 2008
More than 150 probiotic/prebiotic products were introduced in the US in 2007 compared with 100 in 2006 and 40 in 2005, according to Datamonitor. ...
Probiotics help babies fight off respiratory ills
Reuters - Jul 7, 2008
"Our results support the idea that probiotics and prebiotics may enhance immune maturation and protect infants against respiratory pathogens," Dr. Kaarina ...
M?ller invests ?2.5 million in relaunching Vitality
Talking Retail, UK - Jul 14, 2008
The largest of the three cogs is etched with the word ?prebiotics?, the second cog with ?probiotics? and the third cog with ?digestive health?. ...
Probiotics: Microbial friends in your gut
KanglaOnline, India - Jul 19, 2008
Besides probiotics, some other related terms such as prebiotics and synbiotics are often used which may be confused with probiotics. ...
Patients and doctors finding benefits in probiotics
Peoria Journal Star, IL - Jul 8, 2008
Locally, research efforts at the Ag Lab are focused on prebiotics. Those are non-digestible carbohydrates that feed and stimulate growth of probiotics. ...
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A ROLE FOR PREBIOTICS IN CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY
A Awati, PJ Moughan - Nanocarrier Technologies: Frontiers of Nanotherapy. MR …, 2006 - Springer
... animals (chitosan, chondroitin sulphate), algae (alginates) or ... studied extensively
for their prebiotic properties in ... Prebiotics in Controlled Drug Delivery 91 ...

Prebiotic effects of neoagaro-oligosaccharides prepared by enzymatic hydrolysis of agarose -
B Hu, Q Gong, Y Wang, Y Ma, J Li, W Yu - Anaerobe, 2006 - Elsevier
... more NDO have been proved having prebiotic effect ... a new type of oligosaccharide as
prebiotics, NAOS, produced ... agarose, which widely existed in marine red algae. ...

In vivo prebiotic properties of alginate oligosaccharides prepared through enzymatic hydrolysis of … -
Y Wang, F Han, B Hu, J Li, W Yu - Nutrition Research, 2006 - Elsevier
... AOS was a potential novel source of prebiotics both in ... hydrolysis of alginate (abundant
in marine brown algae). ... can be considered as being a prebiotic, it must ...
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Oligosaccharides engineering from plants and algae applications in biotechnology and therapeutics
C Delattre, P Michaud, B Courtois, J Courtois - MINERVA BIOTECNOLOGICA, 2005 - minervamedica.it
... Prebiotics are compounds recognized for their abil- ity to increase ... 41 There are
many prebiotic oligosaccharides isolated from plant and algae such as ...

Weight of evidence needed to substantiate a health effect for probiotics and prebiotics -
ME Sanders, T Tompkins, JT Heimbach, S Kolida - European Journal of Nutrition, 2005 - Springer
... includes plants or plant materials, algae, bacteria, fungi ... An example would
be?prebiotics maintain a ... Most probiotic and all prebiotic preparations will fall ...

Optimization of Incorporated Prebiotics as Coating Materials for Probiotic Microencapsulation -
KN Chen, MJ Chen, JR Liu, CW Lin, HY Chiu - Journal of Food Science, 2005 - Blackwell Synergy
... acids ex- tracted from various species of algae. ... alginate (1%). Furthermore, blending
prebiotics with sodium ... present study confirmed the prebiotic effects of ...

[PDF] Managing gut flora naturally with prebiotics in aquaculture -
F TECHNOLOGY - Grow with Gold Coin, 2006 - aquaasiapac.com
... However, the final weight improved by 4% with the addition of the prebiotic. This
confirmed that the interaction between the prebiotics and ?gut flora-host ...

[PDF] Prebiotics and probiotics or synbiotics in the diets of newly weaned pigs-with regard to gut … -
SB Shim, MWA Verstegen, J Verdonk - Effects of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the diet … - library.wur.nl
... Generally the term prebiotic can be described ... oligosaccharide candidates for prebiotics
Oligosaccharides Structure ... 1, 6 Hydrolysis Algae Gluco-oligosaccharides ...

Modern condition and prospective host microecology investigations
BA SHENDEROV - Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 2007 - informaworld.com
... traditional and new types of prebiotics and other microecology correctors in yeasts,
algae, mushrooms, lichens ... guidelines in the probiotic and prebiotic fields ...

Lactic acid fermented products as vehicles for probiotics. In
JL Parada, ME Sambucetti, A Zuleta, ME Rio - New Horizons in Biotechnology, 2003 - books.google.com
... as vehicles for probiotic and prebiotic agents ... interesting vehicle for probiotics
and prebiotics improving dietary ... 31) or blue-green algae are photoautotrophic ...

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Could brown algae extract be novel prebiotic?
By Stephen Daniells

06/12/2006 - Chinese researchers have reported that alginate oligosaccharides (AOS) have significant prebiotic activity in rats and, if the results can be reproduced in humans, could offer an novel source of the health promoting ingredients.

The researchers, from the Marine Drug and Food Institute, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, report that the faecal bifidobacteria levels of rats supplemented with AOS (2.5 per cent) increased by 13-fold and 4.7-fold compared with rats fed a control, prebiotic-free diet and a diet supplemented with five per cent fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS).

“ In this study, we demonstrated that AOS was a potential novel source of prebiotics both in vitro and in vivo,” wrote lead author Ye Wang in the current issue of Nutrition Research.

Prebiotic ingredients, or those that boost the growth of beneficial probiotic bacteria in the gut, are worth about €90 million in the European marketplace but are forecast to reach €179.7 million by 2010, according to Frost & Sullivan.

The market has been largely created by three inulin producers, all based in Europe, but other ingredient manufacturers are increasingly looking to promote the prebiotic effect of their products as evidence suggests that prebiotics could be even more useful than the probiotic bacteria that they feed.

Prebiotics, which are derived from insoluble fibres and oligosaccharides, can be incorporated into a wider variety of end products than probiotic bacteria. They have also benefited from the promotional efforts of probiotic suppliers, who have significantly raised public awareness of gut health in recent years.

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“We found that ingestion of 2.5 per cent (wt/vol) AOS increased selectively the numbers of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli of rats, and the increase in bifidobacteria was more significant than that of lactobacilli,” said Wang.

“Moreover, the prebiotic effect of AOS was proven to be better than FOS, a prebiotic that has received extensive attention and represents the biggest portion of the current market.”

In vitro studies showed that numbers of the friendly gut bacteria bifidobacteria and lactobacilli were significantly increased when the bacteria were cultured in a medium supplemented with AOS, compared to bacterial populations cultured in a control medium.

Compared to FOS, the alginate oligosaccharides are reported to have selectively stimulated the growth of Bifidobacterium bifidum ATCC 29521 and Bifidobacterium longum SMU 27001.

In vivo studies with male Wistar rats are reported to have shown faecal bifidobacteria levels of rats supplemented with AOS (2.5 per cent) increased by 13-fold compared with rats fed a control, prebiotic-free diet. Faecal lactobacilli numbers also increased by five-fold in the AOS-supplemented rats, compared with the controls.


 

Faecal concentrations of potentially pathogenic bacteria were also said to decrease in rats fed the AOS-supplemented diet, while no such reductions were observed in the control and FOS-fed groups.

“Regardless of the inhibitory effect on potential pathogens, the higher amount of bifidobacteria demonstrated in the cecum of rats resulting from the ingestion of AOS in this study may promote beneficial effects within the gastrointestinal tract,” said Wang.

No adverse effects, such as bloating and belching, were documented by the researchers.

“All these findings indicate that AOS has prebiotic properties that can promote health,” said the researchers.

“Moreover, it is convenient to prepare AOS from alginate via enzymatic hydrolysis, and its raw material, alginate, is very abundant in the world.

“Further work is needed to investigate its effects in human subjects.” Source: Nutrition Research
November 2006, Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 597-603
“In vivo prebiotic properties of alginate oligosaccharides prepared through enzymatic hydrolysis of alginate”
Authors: Y. Wang, F. Han, B. Hu, J. Li and W. Yu

 
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