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JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 137, Issue 11, Pages 2503S-2506SPublisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.11.2503S
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The human gut microbiota plays a significant role in human health through its ability to digest food ingredients and manufacture metabolites. This can be positive or negative for host welfare. Moreover, the microflora plays an active role in host defense whereby colonization resistance affords protection against pathogens. Prebiotics are nondigestible food ingredients that target beneficial components of the gut microflora (mainly colonic), particularly the bifidobacteria. In vitro and in vivo evidence has accumulated to confirm the prebiotic effects of inulin-derived fructans.
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