Guest guest Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Honey Increased Probiotic, Decreased Pathogenic Gut Bacteria High-Throughput Microbial Bioassays to Screen Potential New Zealand Functional Food Ingredients Intended to Manage the Growth of Probiotic and Pathogenic Gut Bacteria International Journal of Food Science & Technology, Volume 43 Issue 12, Pages 2257 - 2267 http://tinyurl.com/6mpkkz <http://tinyurl.com/6mpkkz> A spectrophotometric bioassay was used to screen selected food ingredients intended for development of functional foods designed to influence the growth of gut bacteria…Ingredients were manuka honey UMF™20+ (dose-dependently increased probiotics and decreased pathogens); bee pollen (biphasic growth effects against all); Rosehips and BroccoSprouts® (increased all dose-dependently); blackcurrant oil (little effect) and propolis (inhibited all strains)… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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