Prebiotic Diet: Other Dietary Molecules Implicated in Gut Microbiota Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 36204
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Interests: applied nutrition; polyphenols; antioxidant activity; omega-3; retinoic acid; novel foods; food chemistry; cancer biology; hypertension; breast tissue microbiota; gut microbiota; omega-3 and microbiota
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2. Clinical Nutrition Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: clinical nutrition; perioperative nutrition; body composition; gut microbiota dietary modulation; digestive cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
In 2016, the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) provided a new definition of a prebiotic as ‘a substrate that is selectively utilized by host microorganisms conferring a health benefit’. Moreover, they added polyunsaturated fatty acids and the phenolics/phytochemicals among the prebiotics, even though they are considered ‘candidates’ due to the different levels of scientific evidence in comparison to accepted prebiotics such as fructans and galactans. However, it is not to be excluded that there may be dietary molecules that could play a fundamental role in promoting commensal bacteria viability and metabolic activity, and conferring health benefits to the host, even though they are not substrates for them, and instead other dietary molecules that interrupt or inhibit these metabolic activities.
With this premise in mind, the present Special Issue aims to collect papers concerning the investigation of the unconventional actions of dietary molecules (other than carbohydrate substances), or whole foods containing them, as positive or negative regulators of the commensal gut microbiota, in order to outline what can be defined as the ‘correct prebiotic diet’.
Dr. Lara Costantini
Dr. Emanuele Rinninella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Prebiotic
- Commensal bacteria
- Microbiota
- Microbiome
- Dietary molecules
- Phenolics
- Phytochemicals
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Vitamins
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