Precision Nutrition Targeting Intestinal Microbiota: Probiotics, Functional Foods, and Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 736
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intestinal microbes; probiotics and prebiotics; metabolites of probiotics; intestinal barrier; functional foods; probiotics function and nutrition; human health
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Interests: animal-based proteins; fermentation; flavor; microorganisms; fermented foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The intestinal microbiota plays a critical role in regulating host metabolism, immune homeostasis, and intestinal barrier integrity. Growing evidence indicates that dietary components, including polysaccharides, peptides, polyphenols, probiotics, prebiotics, and other food-derived bioactive substances, can effectively modulate gut microbial composition and metabolic activity, thereby exerting beneficial effects on human health. With advances in microbiome research and nutritional sciences, precision nutrition has emerged as a promising strategy to develop targeted dietary interventions based on individual microbiota profiles and physiological characteristics.
This Special Issue, entitled “Precision Nutrition Targeting Intestinal Microbiota: Probiotics, Functional Foods, and Human Health,” aims to showcase recent progress in microbiota-oriented nutritional research and functional food development. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interactions between food-derived bioactive compounds (such as polysaccharides, peptides, and polyphenols), probiotics and prebiotics, microbial metabolites (postbiotics), and host signaling pathways involved in intestinal barrier function and health regulation.
Original research articles and high-quality reviews involving in vitro, in vivo, and translational studies are welcome. By integrating multidisciplinary insights from food science, nutrition, and microbiology, this Special Issue seeks to advance evidence-based functional foods and precision nutrition strategies targeting gut microbiota to promote human health.
Dr. Xiaomeng Ren
Prof. Dr. Xinping Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- precision nutrition
- gut microbiota
- probiotics and prebiotics
- functional foods
- food-derived bioactive compounds
- polysaccharides
- peptides and polyphenols
- intestinal barrier function
- microbial metabolites (postbiotics)
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