Gut health experts define ?synbiotic? supplements
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the Department of Animal Sciences
the University of Illinois at
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the International Scientific Association for Probiotics
Prebiotics
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
HolscherThe International Scientific Association
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Kelly Swanson
Hannah Holscher
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Prebiotics
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Summary
The experts explain that when administered separately, the two components may not meet the standard definition of a probiotic or prebiotic and may only provide a health benefit when combined.Accordingly, the panel defines a synbiotic as “a mixture comprising live microorganisms and substrate(s) selectively utilized by host microorganisms that confers a health benefit on the host.”Importantly, according to the new definition, the microorganisms in a synbiotic product may not necessarily consume the substrate in that product. We don’t want companies just randomly throwing things together.”The experts call these types of product “complementary synbiotics.”They call products containing microorganisms in combination with a substrate that also helps them thrive “synergistic synbiotics.” “In synergistic synbiotics, the substrate would support probiotic survival,” says Hannah Holscher, a member of the panel and assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Illinois.
As said here by James Kingsland