Microbiota, Food, and Health

Advance Publication Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Advance Publication Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Food Microbiota Diversity

Mediterranean Diet and Health: Food Effects on Gut Microbiota and Disease Control

The Mediterranean diet (MD) is considered one of the healthiest dietary models. Many of the characteristic components of the MD have functional features with positive effects on health and wellness. The MD adherence, calculated through various computational scores, can lead to a reduction of the incidence of major diseases (e.g., cancers, metabolic and cardiovascular syndromes, neurodegenerativ...

Food-based strategies to modulate the composition of the intestinal microbiota and their associated health effects.

The most well known food-based strategies to modulate the composition of the intestinal microbiota are the dietary use of prebiotics, probiotics and their combination, synbiotics. Currently established prebiotic compounds are mainly targeting the bifidobacteria population of the colon microbiota. A good illustration of the importance of high colonic bifidobacteria levels is the observation that...