Microbial exopolysaccharides: Role in functional food engineering and gut‐health management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chakravarthy Muninathan ◽  
Srisowmeya Guruchandran ◽  
Adithya Jairam Viswanath ◽  
Nandhini Devi Ganesan
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Gut Health ◽  
Food Engineering ◽  
Microbial Exopolysaccharides

scholarly journals FORMULASI GULA AREN DAN JAHE PADA PERMEN LEATHER MENGKUDU SEBAGAI PANGAN FUNGSIONAL

BUANA SAINS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Rika Diananing Putri ◽  
Aryo Wibisono ◽  
Dody Tri Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
The Body ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Food Engineering ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Randomized Design ◽  
Palm Sugar ◽  
Soxhlet Method ◽  
Kjeldahl Method ◽  
Local Plants

Functional food is a nutrient that is needed by the body, besides the basic components contained in food. Supporting local resources such as spices, tuber crops, vegetables, fruit and so on. Noni is one of the potentials of local plants that are classified in functional food. Noni fruit is rarely liked because of the pungent aroma. With a touch of food engineering technology, the noni fruit can be used as a processed product in the form of snacks that contain nutrients for the body. This supports the research in making noni fruit products into leather candy that can be liked by the public. Noni leather candy formulation with the addition of palm sugar and ginger in a sequence of 25%, 35% and 10%, 20%, 35%. Stages of research using organoleptic (hedonic) tests on the taste, color, aroma, and texture of noni leather candy, using the two-way ANOVA Complete Randomized Design (RAL) method and continued with the Duncan's Method Range Test (DMRT). Panelists included 40 semi-trained, 60 nontrained. The resulting average in color is 3.82; taste 4,6; aroma of 3.58; texture 3.82. Based on these results, the dominant formulation preferred by panelists is A2J3 (35% palm sugar; 30% ginger) followed by laboratory testing which includes water content using a gravimetry /oven method, the result is 20.82%, ash content using a gravimetry method /furnace the result 3.99%, protein content using the Kjeldahl method /tool with a yield of 4.54%, fat content using the Soxhlet method with a yield of 0.07%, carbohydrate content using the method /tool by difference with a yield of 70.58%, antioxidant activity using DPPH produces 38.35Meg / 100gr and vitamin C content using the LOD titration method resulted in 225.7%.

scholarly journals Efficacy of standardized novel Boswellia serrata extract in the dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis model - potential use in gut health management

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1352
Author(s):  
Shefali Thanawala ◽  
Rajat Shah ◽  
Prasanna Katnapally ◽  
Upendra Bhatnagar
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Sulfate ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Histopathological Examination ◽  
Activity Index ◽  
Disease Activity Index ◽  
Dextran Sodium Sulfate ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Gut Health ◽  
Boswellia Serrata

Background: Objective of this study was to evaluate anti-inflammatory properties of a novel standardized Boswellia serrata extract–bsRx (developed using natural excipients and designed to have specific ratio of its major actives, viz. AKBA and BBA) in dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced IBD model in BALB/c mice.Methods: Animals (BALB/c mice) in control (CL) group were administered vehicle; DSS-induced colitis group (DSS group), 2.5 % DSS; and Boswellia serrata group (BS group) received DSS, for inducing colitis, together with a novel standardized extract of Boswellia serrata (41 mg/kg, 4.1 mg/ml solution in distilled water) for 10 days. Reference group (SS group) received DSS with sulfasalazine (30 mg/kg, 3.0 mg/ml suspension in distilled water) for 10 days. Clinical assessment for disease activity index (DAI), histopathological examination and hematological assessments were performed.Results: Treatment with Boswellia serrata showed significant reduction in the DAI score on day 10 compared to the DSS group (2.49±0.93 versus 3.63±0.55, p≤0.05). Body weight (18.54±2.21 gm versus 17.05±3.53 gm) and colon length (6.8±0.9 cm versus 7.6±0.6 cm, p≤0.05) also improved in the BS group compared to DSS group, respectively. Histological scoring of colitis was lower in the BS group (10.1±1.37). There was no difference in leukotriene levels between groups (p>0.05).Conclusions: Treatment with novel Boswellia serrata extract improved colon length, DAI and histological scoring index in DSS-induced colitis in IBD mice models. Our results indicate the promising potential of novel Boswellia extract in IBD and gut health management.

Influence of functional food components on gut health

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (12) ◽  
pp. 1927-1936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murphy L. Y. Wan ◽  
K. H. Ling ◽  
Hani El-Nezami ◽  
M. F. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Functional Food ◽  
Gut Health ◽  
Food Components

scholarly journals Minimum water consumption method screening of velvet bean (Mucuna sp.) processings to produce functional food ingredients

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Indah Epriliati
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Functional Foods ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Velvet Bean ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Bean Flour

Velvet bean (Mucuna sp.) has been proven containing many beneficial compounds that can be implemented in pharmaceutical and medicines but less noticed for functional foods even though traditionally it is consumed as daily foods or snacks. The indigenous food preparation such as velvet bean Tempe warrants scientific investigation to help society with better public health management. The objective of the review is to select the best method for functional food ingredient product development using velvet beans and provide hypothetical health-oriented food processing e.g. velvet bean flour as functional food ingredients with a focus on less water consumption during processing. Steaming is the selected method.

Cross Talk Between Functional Foods and Gut Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 330-351
Author(s):  
Kiran Thakur ◽  
Jian Guo Zhang ◽  
Zhao-Jun Wei ◽  
Narendra Kumar ◽  
Sudhir Kumar Tomar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Immune Functions ◽  
Gut Health ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Gut Homeostasis ◽  
The Many

The phrase “Let food be the medicine and medicine be the food,” coined by Hippocrates over 2500 years ago is receiving a lot of interest today as food scientists and consumers realize the many health benefits of certain foods. Lately, consumer's choice in food consumption has improved considerably due to the acknowledgment of the fact that foods influence the overall human health. There has been a growing interest over the years to explore beneficial gut microbiota and different interventions are devised to modulate the microbiota through the use of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. Besides improving intestinal health, functional food ingredients also have the potential to restore the gut homeostasis during intestinal disorders conditions. The human gut has a marked effect on the nutritional and health status of the host due to the presence of diverse bacterial species, which develop important metabolic and immune functions. This makes intestinal microbiota a target for nutritional and therapeutic interventions and a factor which influence the biological activity of other food compounds .This chapter attempts to highlight how the reciprocal interactions take place between the gut microbiota and functional food components and how these interactions affect human health and manage various metabolic disorders.

Körperliche Beschwerden bei älteren Migranten in Deutschland 1Erstellt unter Mitwirkung der Arbeitsgruppe «Abuse of the Elderly in the European Region» (ABUEL): Joaquim F. J. Soares, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Francisco Torres-González, Departmental Section of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, University of Granada, Spain; Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou, National School of Public Health, Department of Sociology, Athens, Greece; Giovanni Lamura, Italian National Research Centre on Ageing Department of Gerontological Research, Unit of Health Economics, Ancona, Italy; Mindaugas Stankunas, Kaunas University of Medicine, Department of Health Management, A. Mickeviciaus, Kaunas, Lithuania; Henrique Barros, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal.

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina-Martha Csöff ◽  
Gloria Macassa ◽  
Jutta Lindert
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Management ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Karolinska Institute ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Körperliche Beschwerden

Körperliche Beschwerden sind bei Älteren weit verbreitet; diese sind bei Migranten bislang in Deutschland und international noch wenig untersucht. Unsere multizentrische Querschnittstudie erfasste körperliche Beschwerden bei Menschen im Alter zwischen 60 und 84 Jahren mit Wohnsitz in Stuttgart anhand der Kurzversion des Gießener Beschwerdebogens (GBB-24). In Deutschland wurden 648 Personen untersucht, davon 13.4 % (n = 87) nicht in Deutschland geborene. Die Geschlechterverteilung war bei Migranten und Nichtmigranten gleich; der sozioökonomische Status lag bei den Migranten etwas niedriger: 8.0 % (n = 7) der Migranten und 2.5 % (n = 14) der Nichtmigranten verfügten über höchstens vier Jahre Schulbildung; 12.6 % (n = 11) der Migranten und 8.2 % (n = 46) der Nichtmigranten hatten ein monatliches Haushaltsnettoeinkommen von unter 1000€; 26.4 % der Migranten und 38.1 % (n = 214) der Nichtmigranten verfügten über mehr als 2000€ monatlich. Somatische Beschwerden lagen bei den Migranten bei 65.5 % (n = 57) und bei den Nichtmigranten bei 55.8 % (n = 313). Frauen wiesen häufiger somatische Beschwerden auf (61.8 %) als Männer (51.8 %). Mit steigendem Alter nahmen somatische Beschwerden zu. Mit Ausnahme der Altersgruppe der 70–74-Jährigen konnte kein signifikanter Unterschied zwischen Migranten und Nichtmigranten hinsichtlich der Häufigkeit körperlicher Beschwerden gezeigt werden. Ausblick: Es werden dringend bevölkerungsrepräsentative Studien zu körperlichen Beschwerden bei Migranten benötigt.

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