Plant-Derived Prebiotics and Their Role in Gut Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2026) | Viewed by 1025
Editors
Interests: phytochemicals; dietary fiber; prebiotics; gut microbiota; microbiome metabolism; gut-brain axis; nutritional intervention; structure-activity relationship; functional foods
Interests: gut microbiota in humans and animals; functional feed additives and dietary components; antimicrobial peptides and proteins
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Interests: gut microbiota; marine polysaccharides; colitis; inflammatory bowel disease; fermentation; prebiotics; probiotics; obesity; diabetes; carbohydrate-based drugs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This issue invites cutting-edge advances in the discovery, structural elucidation, and mechanistic understanding of plant-based prebiotic compounds. We welcome original research, reviews, and short communications on the following topics:
- Novel oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, polyphenols, and other plant-based components with prebiotic properties.
- Multi-omics insights into microbial fermentation kinetics, SCFA profiles, mucosal barrier reinforcement, and host immune crosstalk.
- Robust in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo models evaluating physiological outcomes relevant to obesity, diabetes, IBD, and neuro-inflammation.
This issue also encourages submissions on next-generation prebiotics, synergistic effects with probiotics, and sustainable strategies for prebiotic extraction and utilization. We seek to provide a platform highlighting scientific and practical insights into plant prebiotics for improving gut and overall health.
Dr. Xiaoqiong Li
Dr. Xin Wang
Dr. Qingsen Shang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prebiotic
- next-generation prebiotic
- oligosaccharides
- polysaccharides
- polyphenols
- synbiotic
- gut microbiota
- functional food
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