Microbes, Their Metabolites, and Effector Molecules: A Pharmacological Perspective for Host-Microbiota Interaction

Trends in non‐dairy‐based probiotic food products: Advances and challenges

“…The possible route for administering probiotics is oral, vaginal, topical, and rectal (Sanders, 2009). Probiotics' ability to maintain gut microbiota balance, immune system, and overall intestinal health and physiology is well described in the medical sector (Bhushan et al, 2019; Valero‐Cases et al, 2020). Other health benefits linked with probiotic consumption are alleviation of lactose intolerance symptoms, anti‐carcinogenic properties, treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, stimulation of calcium absorption, reduction of blood cholesterol, respiratory tract infections, constipation, urinary tract infections, helicobacter pylori infection, restrain the effects of foodborne pathogens and vitamin synthesis (folic acid, vitamin B, and nicotinic acid) (Kerry et al, 2018; Nagpal, Kumar, Kumar, Behare, et al, 2012).…”

“…Some other bacteria and yeasts used as probiotics are mentioned in Table 1.The possible route for administering probiotics is oral, vaginal, topical, and rectal (Sanders, 2009). Probiotics' ability to maintain gut microbiota balance, immune system, and overall intestinal health and physiology is well described in the medical sector (Bhushan et al, 2019;Valero-Cases et al, 2020). Other health benefits linked with probiotic consumption are alleviation of lactose intolerance…”