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Functional hydrocolloids, gut microbiota and health: picking food additives for personalized nutrition.

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The human gut microbiota respond to particular food components, interact with intestinal mucosa and thereby contribute to health and diseases. Key microbiome features are under comprehensive investigation and are likely… Click to show full abstract

The human gut microbiota respond to particular food components, interact with intestinal mucosa and thereby contribute to health and diseases. Key microbiome features are under comprehensive investigation and are likely to be developed as reliable evidences for clinical diagnosis. And the underlying mechanisms lay the foundation of assembling bespoke nutritional ingredients including functional food additives that may lead to favorable outcomes in facilitating amelioration of host dysfunctions. Functional hydrocolloids serve as multiple food additives with promising application prospects and outstanding adjunctive beneficial characteristics. Therefore, in this review, we introduce the latest advances in food additives-gut microbiota-host axis by summarizing the physiochemical and physiological properties of a collection of functional hydrocolloids from various sources, describing the functional hydrocolloids-related intestinal commensal markers, and deciphering the underlying mechanisms of their beneficial effects, and propose the feasibilities and guidelines for further developments of gut microbiota-oriented personalized nutrition.

Keywords: personalized nutrition; food additives; gut microbiota; functional hydrocolloids; health; food

Journal Title: FEMS microbiology reviews
Year Published: 2021

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