“…kefiran . These carbohydrates have several health beneficial effects, including the decrease of blood pressure induced by hypertension (Maeda et al, 2004), immunomodulation, epithelium protection and antagonic activity against Bacillus cereus on Caco-2 cells (Piermaria et al, 2010), increased phagocytic activity of peritoneal and lung macrophages (Vinderola, Perdigon, Duarte, Farnworth, & Matar, 2006) and increased IgA cells in these sites (Duarte, Vinderola, Ritz, Perdigon, & Matar, 2006), antitumor activity (Liu, Wang, Lin, & Lin, 2002), antimicrobial activity (Rodrigues, Caputo, Carvalho, Evangelista, & Schneedorf, 2005), and antiinflammatory activity (Moreira et al, 2008). Kefiran also improves the rheological properties and better viscoelasticity can be achieved through addition of kefiran up to a level of 300 mg/L (Badel et al, 2011;Piermaria et al, 2010).…”