A Note on Prebiotics Strategy to Cope with Current Health Challenges in Human Beings |Biomedgrid

The current widely used practices of processed food have resulted in elimination of healthy microflora from human gut leading several health issues like chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, colon cancer, obesity, heart diseases and high cholesterol etc. Amongst others, prebiotic approaches have been developed to promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut to treat gut related disorders and improve human health. Importance of prebiotics in maintaining gut microbial diversity, need of novel prebiotics having varied functional properties and their production strategies for commercial applications have been highlighted in this article.