Probiotics

Probiotics: Advanced Food and Health Applicationspresents the functional properties and advanced technological aspects of probiotics for food formulation, nutrition, and health implications.Specifically, the book addresses the fundamentals of probiotics, from their discovery to actual developments, the microbiological aspects of the main genus showing probiotic properties, the natural occurrence of probiotic strains in foods, the development of nutraceuticals based on probiotics, and the relationship of probioticstohealth.The book also includes a discussion on regulatory aspects. This book is an excellent resource for food scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmaceutical scientists,and others workingwith probioticsor studying related fields.