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Vegetable matrices as potential carriers for probiotic bacteria viability


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Título :
Vegetable matrices as potential carriers for probiotic bacteria viability
Autor :
Valero Cases, Estefanía
Tutor:
Frutos Fernández, María José
Departamento:
Departamentos de la UMH::Tecnología Agroalimentaria
Fecha de publicación:
2017-06
URI :
http://hdl.handle.net/11000/5328
Resumen :
Según los aforismos de Hipócrates (460-370 AD) “Que la medicina sea tu alimento y el alimento tu medicina” y “Todas las enfermedades comienzan en el intestino”, actualmente, los científicos que estudian el microbioma humano aconsejan que una dieta saludable debe de incluir alimentos fermentados par...  Ver más
According to the Hippocrates´ aphorisms (460-370 BC) “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food” and “All diseases begin in the gut”, nowadays, scientists studying the human microbiome suggest that healthy diets should include fermented foods to transiently strengthen living microbes in our gut. As a result, fermented food has gained popularity and consumers demand this type of food. However, most commercial probiotic foods in the market are dairy fermented foods and certain sectors of the population such as those allergic to milk proteins, strictly vegetarian and lactose intolerants, cannot consume them. Therefore, the need arises to explore new non-dairy matrices as carriers of probiotics to offer consumers an alternative to fermented dairy products. However, the use of probiotic cultures in alternative food matrices remains a critical problem because it could represent a major challenge for probiotic viability. Therefore, careful selection of food matrices as probiotic carriers is an essential factor in the development of probiotic foods to ensure a high viability of probiotics to reach the large intestine. Accordingly, the main objective of the PhD Thesis was to determine the influence of different vegetable matrices (polymeric matrices and beverages) as potential carriers for probiotic bacteria in order to ensure their viability in the range of 106-107 CFU/mL or g of food at the consumption time, to reach the large intestine in high amounts. The following aspects have been also investigated as part of the specific objectives: probiotic viability during manufacturing, storage and under gastrointestinal in vitro digestion, the synergistic effect of prebiotics and probiotics, the fermented beverages physicochemical parameters, antioxidant properties, sensory acceptance, and biotransformations of the phenolic compounds, and the influence of fruit juices as probiotic carriers on the ability of a probiotic strain to improve in vitro epithelial intestinal barrier integrity and the microbial intestinal adherence and potential cytotoxic effect to Caco-2 cells.
Palabras clave/Materias:
Alimentos funcionales probióticos
Área de conocimiento :
CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Medicina: Fisiología
Tipo de documento :
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Derechos de acceso:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Aparece en las colecciones:
Tesis doctorales - Ciencias e Ingenierías



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