Probiotics: A Way of Value Addition in Functional Food

Abstract

An intense acceptance of functional foods due to consumer's demand, social attitudes, scientific evidence of the human health benefits of a particular ingredient coupled with commercially driven interest to add value to existing foods have projected probiotics as a new way in the current era of self-care and complementary medicine. Diverse functional properties of probiotics led their incorporation into conventional, dietary supplements and medicinal foods and must be ingested in sufficient quantities to exert health benefits but are often present at lower levels as per the label claims. Worldwide regulations related to probiotics are incoherent and adoption of assay techniques are inconsistent, therefore establishment and reinforcement of a quality assurance program to ensure "Standard of Identity" for adopting the label "Probiotic" is emerging.

Probiotic icecream as a functional food - a review

“…The global market for functional food is booming and is expected to get projected from $281.14bn to $529.66bn from 2021 to 2028, with a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.5% (Fortune Business Insights, 2020). An intense acceptance of functional foods may be due to consumer's demand, social attitudes (Baker et al, 2022), scientific evidence of the human health benefits of a particular ingredient (Bigliardi and Galati, 2013) coupled with commercially driven interest to add value to the existing foods (Sarkar et al, 2016). Ice cream has a great potential for the development of functional food due to higher consumer's demand and scope for functionalizing ice cream with fruits, probiotics, prebiotics (Ozturk et al, 2018), dietary fibres (Ayar et al, 2018) and native or hydrolysed camel milk caseins (Hajian et al, 2020).…”

“…An intense acceptance of functional foods may be due to consumer’s demand, social attitudes (Baker et al. , 2022), scientific evidence of the human health benefits of a particular ingredient (Bigliardi and Galati, 2013) coupled with commercially driven interest to add value to the existing foods (Sarkar et al. , 2016).…”

Enhancing The Nutritional Value and Chemical Composition of Functional Yogurt Drink by Adding Bee Honey and Spirulina Powder

“…There is well-documented evidence that products containing probiotics have health benefits, and consumer demand for natural products has also fueled consumer preferences for probiotic foods (Sarkar, 2018). Probiotics can improve human health by altering the gut microbiota to affect physiological and pathological processes in the host (Sarkar et al, 2016). Due to their therapeutic and nutritional properties, probiotics have now become one of the most powerful functional foods and have been shown to be effective in modulating the gastrointestinal flora to prevent the spread of various diseases (Sarkar et al, 2017).…”