Thursday 22 December 2011

Probiotic and prebiotic (easy way to understand)

Google is super useful before sitting the examination, rather than looking black white A4 paper to read on notes.
 just photo. never related to me.

In the last test of Food Microbiology, last week, I was not clearly understand about probiotic and prebiotic.
So I cant answered it well.
Thats why I 'google' for better understanding on probiotic and prebiotic so that I wont repeat the same mistake I did.
So guys, this is what pro- and prebiotic all about :

Intro : You have bacteria living in your gut. Some of them could make you sick, however there are also bacteria that are actually beneficial.

When the bad bacteria and yeast become overgrown in your intestinal tract, you have a condition called dysbiosis.
The antibiotics that you take for killing an infection will also kill the healthy bacteria in your digestive tract.

Prebiotics and probiotics can restore the balance of bacteria in your digestive tract.

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that can be found in various foods. When you eat probiotics, you will add these healthy bacteria to your intestinal tract. Common strains include Lactobacillis and Bifidobacterium families of bacteria.

Probiotic bacteria like lactobacilli are naturally found in fermented foods like sauerkraut and yogurt.
Prebiotics are non-digestible foods that make their way through our digestive system and help good bacteria grow and flourish. Prebiotics keep beneficial bacteria healthy.

Prebiotics derived from nondigestible food ingredients thatt beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth or activity or both, of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon.

Simple!

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