Journal
MICROORGANISMS
Volume 10, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10071278
Keywords
probiotics; food contaminants; detoxification; antimutagen; anticarcinogen
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- Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CCCDI-UEFISCDI, within PNCDI III [PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2126, PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-3622]
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This paper reviews the potential of probiotics in biodetoxification, discussing their role in combating pathogens, fungal infections, mycotoxins, acrylamide toxicity, benzopyrene, and heavy metals. It emphasizes the importance of specific probiotic strains and combinations for health outcomes.
Probiotic consumption is recognized as being generally safe and correlates with multiple and valuable health benefits. However, the mechanism by which it helps detoxify the body and its anti-carcinogenic and antimutagenic potential is less discussed. A widely known fact is that globalization and mass food production/cultivation make it impossible to keep all possible risks under control. Scientists associate the multitude of diseases in the days when we live with these risks that threaten the population's safety in terms of food. This review aims to explore whether the use of probiotics may be a safe, economically viable, and versatile tool in biodetoxification despite the numerous risks associated with food and the limited possibility to evaluate the contaminants. Based on scientific data, this paper focuses on the aspects mentioned above and demonstrates the probiotics' possible risks, as well as their anti-carcinogenic and antimutagenic potential. After reviewing the probiotic capacity to react with pathogens, fungi infection, mycotoxins, acrylamide toxicity, benzopyrene, and heavy metals, we can conclude that the specific probiotic strain and probiotic combinations bring significant health outcomes. Furthermore, the biodetoxification maximization process can be performed using probiotic-bioactive compound association.
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