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Dairy Council Digest Archives
Probiotics: Considerations for Human Health
Conclusion
Several potential health benefits of probiotics have been identified, but many must be confirmed by well-controlled human studies (2-7,17,24). Numerous issues remain to be resolved, including the optimal intake, duration of treatment, and selection of probiotic strains for desired outcomes, as well as the best way to deliver probiotics (2,6,18,84).
Dairy products, which are nutrient rich foods, are a desirable natural delivery vehicle for probiotics.
Probiotic bacteria have long been associated with dairy foods. These foods are considered a desirable natural vehicle to deliver probiotic bacteria such as lactobacilli and bifidobacteria into the intestine (3). Consuming probiotics with dairy foods buffers stomach acid and increases the likelihood that the bacteria will survive into the intestine (18). Dairy products containing probiotics also provide a number of essential nutrients including calcium and protein, as well as other components such as bioactive peptides, sphingolipids, and conjugated linoleic acid. Researchers are investigating the possibility of synergistic effects between components in dairy foods and probiotic cultures and whether components in milk trigger beneficial genes in probiotic cultures. As a result of new gene technologies, an increased understanding of probiotics’ mechanisms and functions and the development of probiotic strains with specific characteristics can be expected (2,18).
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