Abrar Asif, Muhammad Afzaal, Hina Shahid, Farhan Saeed, Aftab Ahmed, Yasir Abbas Shah, Afaf Ejaz, Samia Ghani, Huda Ateeq, Mahbubur Rahman Khan
Functional foods are gaining significant research attention of researchers due to their health-endorsing properties due to their bioactive components either living cells (probiotics) or nonviable cells (prebiotics). The term "postbiotic" specifies the soluble substances, such as enzymes, peptides, teichoic acids, muropeptides derived from peptidoglycans, polysaccharides, cell surface proteins, and organic acids, that are secreted by living bacteria or released after bacterial lysis. Due to various signaling molecules which may have antioxidant, immunomodulatory, antiinflammatory, antihypertensive, and antiproliferative activities, postbiotics offer great potential to be used in pharmaceutical, food, and nutraceutical industries, to promote health and ailment prevention...
August 2023: Food Science & Nutrition