The Starting Point of Intestinal Microecological Regulation: Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics and Postbiotics and Their Associated Roles
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 596
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and other chronic diseases caused by dietary imbalance occur frequently. The gut microbiota is a target for many diseases. Many studies have revealed that probiotics, prebiotics, Biostime, and epigenetics play an important role in promoting the regulation of intestinal flora and maintaining host health. Probiotics include Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus, Bacillus, Clostridium, and yeast. Prebiotics include but are not limited to polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, dietary fiber, resistant starch, sugar alcohols, polyphenols, flavonoids, carotenoids, vitamins, glucosinolates, phytosterols, saponins, bioactive peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids, etc. On the other hand, synbiotics are a mixture of living microbes and substrates, including probiotics and prebiotics. Postbiotics are mainly the isolated cell structure and secretion products or metabolic by-products collected after the release or lysis of living bacterial cells, including short-chain fatty acids, various bacteriocins, vitamins, peptides, microbial cell lysates, extracellular polysaccharides, etc. Nevertheless, the mechanism by which different probiotic and prebiotic combinations interact in the host remains largely unclear. Can the role of probiotics or prebiotics in regulating intestinal microecology be attributed to the epigenesis that occurs after the administration of probiotics or prebiotics, or is it a direct effect of the probiotics or prebiotics themselves? This aspect still needs further study. Based on the above conclusions, this Special Issue explores the correlation (mechanism) between various probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics that regulate intestinal microecology, laying a theoretical foundation for their precise customization and scientific formulation construction in health food.
Prof. Dr. Yuhuan Liu
Dr. Xian Cui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- probiotics
- prebiotics
- synbiotics
- postbiotics
- functional foods
- gut microbiota regulation
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