Probiotics as a boon in Food diligence: Emphasizing the therapeutic roles of Probiotic beverages on consumers' health

Abstract

Probiotics are living microorganisms that improve health when eaten or introduced to the body. They have become an essential aspect of everyone’s life now due to these products growing health benefits. They contain live bacteria that help our gut maintain good gut microflora and keep us healthy. Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are the most used probiotic strains. Everyone knows the importance of these products nowadays and has highlighted the parts that a reader must know about these products and how they affect the human body. This review discusses probiotics, dairy-based probiotics, non-dairy based probiotics and their role in therapeutics. This review has also been elaborated on an essential by-product of the dairy industry, i.e., whey, which has many health benefits and highly recommended for people who are in sports and body-building. While analysing the health benefits of probiotic supplements, there is a lot to discuss,i.e. how and where probiotic products work in our body and provide us with different health benefits. The most common way a probiotic performs is by boosting our immune system and fighting diseases. While looking at the market part of probiotic products globally, it is a multibillion-dollar market mostly based in Europe, where people are more health-conscious. The probiotic market has now frowned worldwide and is one of the most profitable markets in the current world.

Dairy and non-dairy based probiotics: A review

“…The studies shows that simulation of cholesterol occurs by the probiotic cell attachment to the cholesterol, and thereby effective removal of cholesterol takes place by probiotics (Khan et al, 2021) [37] . They can improve the blood pressure by lowering down LDLP, reducing the glucose level in blood or serum cholesterol whenever the levels are increased and by regulating renin-angiotensin system.…”

“…Consumers all across the world have become much more aware of the relationship between nutrition and health which prompted scientific research into the discovery of foods and food components with numerous health benefits. Culminating in the development of functional foods that are foods or food ingredients have a positive influence on consumer health and minimize the risk of chronic diseases (Khan et al, 2021; Salmerón, 2017) [37,64] . Functional food research has transitioned toward the development of dietary supplementation and with the emergence of probiotics that could affect intestinal microbiota composition and function (Begum et al, 2017) [11] .…”

“…Probiotic foods are consist of a single or mixed culture of microorganisms that improve the consumer's gut microbial balance and hence benefit their health. In order to give beneficial effects to human body (Khan et al, 2021) [37] the live microorganism need to be present more than 10 8 to 10 9 cfu/ml in probiotic products. Probiotic must be capable of withstanding the adverse conditions in the gastrointestinal tract of the body (Shori 2016).…”

Probiotics: Role of bioactives in foods and dietary supplements

“…It is thought that certain beneficial microbes ingested within the human body through food can affect the health of consumers by modifying their intestinal flora. In the meantime, a link between excessive numbers of good bacteria and advantageous biological effects in the intestinal flora remains unknown (Khan et al, 2021) [23] . The use of live microbes, particularly lactic acid bacteria in food, has an ancient legacy of preserving and enhancing human health.…”

Gut microbiota and chronic diseases: Role of probiotics

“…Probiotics are organisms which are live when provided in sufficient amounts provide health benefits to host (Khan et al, 2021;Syiemlieh and Morya, 2022). The term "probiotic" is a Greek term which suggests "for life".…”