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Aloe vera and Probiotics: A New Alternative to Symbiotic Functional Foods

R. B. Cuvas-Limón, Montañez Sáenz Julio, Contreras Esquivel Juan Carlos, Cruz Hernández Mario, Solange I. Mussatto, Belmares-Cerda Ruth

Annual Research & Review in Biology · pp. 1–11 · Published 18 Dec 2015

10.9734/ARRB/2016/22622

Abstract

Providing products that beyond a high nutritional value brings health benefits to consumers is a major challenge to food industry. Functional foods, including prebiotics and probiotic as components, are the protagonists to promote these advantages. Aloe vera is a medicinal plant well characterized in terms of its chemical composition and therapeutic properties. Taking into account these characteristics Aloe vera represents an excellent natural source of prebiotics, as well as a substrate for lactic acid bacteria fermentation. Thus a symbiotic drink using Aloe vera as the main ingredient and lactic acid bacteria as probiotics with significant benefits to human health might represent a promising product to develop.

Aloe vera lactic acid bacteria fermentation functional probiotics and prebiotics.

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