Szlufman Carolina, Shemesh Moshe
Department of Food Science, Institute of Postharvest Technology and Food Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel.
Front Microbiol. 2021 Apr 12;12:638830. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.638830. eCollection 2021.
The human body is inhabited by a vast diversity of probiotic microorganisms that could positively affect human physiology. Besides, prebiotic food substances may induce symbiotic relationship among probiotic species through the successful establishment of commensal microbiota, whose connections with the host are multifaceted and multidirectional. As deliberated throughout this review, prebiotic and synbiotic foods contain the capability to stimulate numerous health characteristics in host organisms through various means. Predominantly, the normal microbiota fosters the digestion of food and may boost the innate and adaptive immune system's functionalities. Therefore, live probiotic bacteria, for instance, probiotic obtained together with prebiotic food, can help stimulate healthiness in humans. Thus, we discuss how certain dietary fibers may preserve the probiotic efficacy by serving as the scaffold for probiotic to colonize them through forming symbiotic interactions. The fibers can essentially promote protection by encapsulating probiotic against various environmental and physical stresses that might kill the free-living bacterial cells. Besides, these fibers would serve as prebiotic substances that would eventually be utilized for the proliferation of probiotic cells. It is believed that applying this conceptual idea will provide a novel platform toward developing probiotic and synbiotic foods, as discussed in this review.
人体中栖息着种类繁多的益生菌微生物，它们能对人体生理产生积极影响。此外，益生元食物物质可通过成功建立共生微生物群，诱导益生菌物种之间形成共生关系，共生微生物群与宿主的联系是多方面且多向的。正如本综述所讨论的，益生元和合生元食物有能力通过多种方式刺激宿主生物体的多种健康特性。主要地，正常微生物群促进食物消化，并可能增强先天和适应性免疫系统的功能。因此，活的益生菌，例如与益生元食物一起获得的益生菌，有助于促进人类健康。因此，我们讨论了某些膳食纤维如何通过作为益生菌定殖的支架，通过形成共生相互作用来保持益生菌的功效。这些纤维基本上可以通过包裹益生菌来促进保护，使其免受可能杀死自由生活细菌细胞的各种环境和物理压力。此外，这些纤维将作为益生元物质，最终用于益生菌细胞的增殖。如本综述所讨论的，相信应用这一概念将为开发益生菌和合生元食物提供一个新的平台。
