Optimal synbiotics
A team of researchers may have taken a large step towards designing the optimal synbiotics for gut health as a new screening study reveals the best match between pre- and probiotics.
Screening of 7 commercially available prebiotics and 6 commercially available probiotics revealed, for example, that short-chain fructooligosaccharide (sc-FOS) prebiotics increased the growth of Bifidobacterium lactis BI-07 more than the other prebiotics.
Mark Olson, President of MRM (Metabolic Response Multipliers), the company that is commercializing the results for dietary supplements, told NutraIngredients-USA that the study represented a “new paradigm of thinking in gut health”.