Main description:

This book will be relevant for clinicians and dieticians that wish to have the most up-to-date knowledge on food sciences. Additionally, it is useful for academics with expertise in metabolism, product development and/or R&D heads in the pharmaceutical industry and food industry. Written by selected professors and researchers, experts in nutrition and microbiology. The information is essential to food and nutrition professionals to expand the research and the related industries to develop food, nutritional, and supplement products that benefit the microbiome and health. This book's marketability is wide to general and professional readers and food- and nutrition-related industries. Provides a holistic approach to the subject of diet and prebiotics that considers both clinicians and researchers. Explains advances in food science establishing healthy gut models for dietary prebiotics, describes the current technologies that are used to uncover the interaction between probiotics and prebiotics. Contains information on the microbiome and its relationship with diets and supplements that may offer innovative strategies for food product development.

Contents:

Part I: T0 Benchwork, including techniques for microbiome studies

1. Tools and resources enabling marker gene-based microbiome studies.

2. Phageome in gut microbiome

Part II: T1: Pre-clinical animal studies, and safety and efficacy trial in humans

3. Microbiome and Nutrition - Why do we care? "Discussing a complex relationship".

4. Models for researching the gut microbiome.

5. Dietary modulation of the gut microbiota by cultured products. (pending)

6. Dietary modulation of the gut microbiota by prebiotics and other dietary nutrients and relevant health effect(s).

Part III: T2-3 Effectiveness trials in general population and regulatory limitations

7. Gut microbiota and polyphenols: Discussing a powerful interplay and its effect on health

8. Diet, obesity, and gut microbiome

9. Challenge, future research, and influence in food science and product development