The Gut Microbiome: Bench to Table

This book will be relevant for clinicians and dieticians that wish to have the most up-to-date knowledge on food sciences. Additionally, it is useful for academics with expertise in metabolism, product development and/or R&D heads in the pharmaceutical industry and food industry. Written by selected professors and researchers, experts in nutrition and microbiology. The information is essential to food and nutrition professionals to expand the research and the related industries to develop food, nutritional, and supplement products that benefit the microbiome and health. This book’s marketability is wide to general and professional readers and food- and nutrition-related industries. Provides a holistic approach to the subject of diet and prebiotics that considers both clinicians and researchers. Explains advances in food science establishing healthy gut models for dietary prebiotics, describes the current technologies that are used to uncover the interaction between probiotics and prebiotics. Contains information on the microbiome and its relationship with diets and supplements that may offer innovative strategies for food product development.