Barley β-Glucans-Containing Food Enhances Probiotic Performances of Beneficial Bacteria

• DOI: 10.3390/ijms15023025
• Publication Date: 2014-02-20T16:08:24Z
• Authors: Mattia Arena; Graziano Caggiani...; Daniela Fiocco; Pasquale Russo; Michele Torelli; Giuseppe Spano; Vittorio Capozzi
• Keywords: Enterocyte; Caecum; Prebiotic

Currently, the majority of prebiotics in market are derived from non-digestible oligosaccharides. Very few studies have focused on long chain complex polysaccharides relation to their potential as novel prebiotics. Cereals β-glucans been investigated for immune-modulating properties and beneficial effects obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cholesterol levels. Moreover, reported be highly fermentable by intestinal microbiota caecum colon, can enhance both growth rate lactic acid production microbes isolated human intestine. In this work, we report food matrices containing barley probiotic features four Lactobacillus strains. Such were able improve tested bacteria unstressed conditions and, importantly, after exposure vitro simulation digestive tract. effect β-glucans-containing bacterial adhesion enterocyte-like cells was analyzed a positive influence probiotic-enterocyte interaction observed.