This review examines different nutritional guidelines, some case studies, and provides insights and discrepancies, in the regulatory framework of Food Safety Management of some of the world's economies. There are thousands of fermented foods and beverages, although the intention was not to review them but check their traditional and cultural value, and if they are still lacking to be classed as...

Animal models and clinical trials in humans suggest that probiotics can have an anxiolytic effect. However, no studies have examined the relationship between probiotics and social anxiety. Here we employ a cross-sectional approach to determine whether consumption of fermented foods likely to contain probiotics interacts with neuroticism to predict social anxiety symptoms. A sample of young adul...

Japanese commercial natto, a sticky fermented food made from steamed soybeans, is produced using a pure culture of Bacillus subtilis, but natto-like products in other Asian countries are manufactured through a natural fermentation process (Chantawannakul et al., 2002; Chunhachart et al., 2006b; Sarkar et al., 2002; Tamang, 1999). These fermented soybean foods are different from brine-added ferm...

Microbial communities of fermented foods have provided humans with tools for preservation and flavor development for thousands of years. These simple, reproducible, accessible, culturable, and easy-to-manipulate systems also provide opportunities for dissecting the mechanisms of microbial community formation. Fermented foods can be valuable models for processes in less tractable microbiota.

This cross-sectional study investigates whether calcium intakes from dairy and non-dairy sources, and absolute intakes of various dairy products, are associated with periodontitis. The calcium intake (mg/day) of 135 older Danish adults was estimated by a diet history interview and divided into dairy and non-dairy calcium. Dairy food intake (g/day) was classified into four groups: milk, cheese, ...

The bioavailability of minerals, Zn, Fe, Ca and Mg from cereals, is low because it is present as an insoluble complex with food antinutrient component such as phytic acid. The commonly consumed fermented foods in Khandesh region of Maharashtra, India was investigated for some minerals and anti nutritional factor, Phytate. We study the effect of fermentation with an aim to reduce the content of ...

Probiotics are viable microbial species, which are ingested for the purpose of altering the gastrointestinal flora in a manner, which confers health benefits. Currently available probiotic products include a wide array of bacterial and fungal species which are consumed in a variety of preparations. The use of microbials originated (unintentionally) centuries ago when people first noted the bene...