International Journal of Contemporary Microbiology
Open Access
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 1

Probiotics – a review

  • Author:
  • Swati Choudhary1, Pallavi Chauhan2, Krishna Deo Prasad3, Vibha Jain4, Sachin Mittal2, Pranshu Singh5, Shubhankar Dasgupta2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 18 to 20

1Post Graduate Student, Dept. of Oral Pathology, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College & Research Centre, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

2Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College & Research Centre, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

3Professor & Head, Dept. of Oral Pathology, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College & Research Centre, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

4Professor & Head, Dept. of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College & Research Centre, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

5Post Graduate Student, Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Faculty of Dental Sciences, KGMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Online published on 25 March, 2015.

Abstract

Probiotic have become popular during the last few decades as a result of the continuously expanding scientific evidence pointing to their beneficial effects on human health. So they have been applied as various products with the food industry having been very active in studying and promoting them. Within this market the probiotics have been incorporated in various products, mainly fermented dairy foods. In present trend and despite the strong scientific evidence associating these microorganisms to various health benefits, further research is needed in order to establish them and evaluate their safety as well as their nutritional aspects. The purpose of this paper is to review the possible beneficial properties of probiotic bacteria in the literature.

Keywords

Bacteria, Probiotics and Probiotics therapy