ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2023
Fermented foods: a perspective on their role in delivering biotics.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Microbial biofortification of fermented foods: a review of probiotic-mediated nutrient enhancement.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Traditional Dry-Cured Fermented Foods with Probiotic Effect: Selection, Mechanisms of Action and Applications.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Role of Inactivation Methods in Shaping Postbiotic Composition and Modulating Bioactivity: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- In vitro fermentation characteristics of dietary fibers using fecal inoculum from dogs consuming commercial or grain kefir.Journal of animal science · 2025Article
- Certain fermented dairy foods as a source of multibiotics and multimetabolites: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Concepts and criteria defining emerging microbiome applications.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Article
- The Evolution of Science and Regulation of Dietary Supplements: Past, Present, and Future.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Review
- Fermentation of Rice, Oat, and Wheat Flour by Pure Cultures of Common Starter Lactic Acid Bacteria: Growth Dynamics, Sensory Evaluation, and Functional Properties.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Microbial Evolution in Artisanal Pecorino-like Cheeses Produced from Two Farms Managing Two Different Breeds of Sheep (Comisana and Lacaune).Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fermented foods and gastrointestinal health: underlying mechanisms.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024Review
- Current Research on Flavor Compounds in Fermented Food Products.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fermented foods, their microbiome and its potential in boosting human health.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- High-throughput detection of potential bacteriocin producers in a large strain library using live fluorescent biosensors.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Fermented foods are often erroneously equated with probiotics. Although they might act as delivery vehicles for probiotics, or other 'biotic' substances, including prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics, stringent criteria must be met for a fermented food to be considered a 'biotic'. Those criteria include documented health benefit, sufficient product characterization (for probiotics to the strain level) and testing. Similar to other functional ingredients, the health benefits must go beyond that of the product's nutritional components and food matrix. Therefore, the 'fermented food' and 'probiotic' terms may not be used interchangeably. This concept would apply to the other biotics as well. In this context, the capacity of fermented foods to deliver one, several, or all biotics defined so far will depend on the microbiological and chemical level of characterization, the reproducibility of the technological process used to produce the fermented foods, the evidence for health benefits conferred by the biotics, as well as the type and amount of testing carried out to show the probiotic, prebiotic, synbiotic, and postbiotic capacity of that fermented food.
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