Probióticos y prebióticos en matrices de origen vegetal: Avances en el desarrollo de bebidas de frutas

Abstract

Functional Foods are beneficial to health, transcend nutritional characteristics and involve physiological effects. Functional food include: probiotics, prebiotics and symbiotics, which generate balance in the intestinal microbiota. The demand for foods that allow the consumer to implement healthier food habits has been accompanied by the increase in lactose intolerance, which has stimulated the research, study and development of a generation of food products of vegetable origin, mainly fruit drinks with added probiotic microorganisms. These drinks have associated technological challenges, including viability and sensory effect. The aim of this article is to review the conditions of the addition of probiotic microorganisms and prebiotic agents in vegetable origin products and the characteristics that allow the use of these food matrices as inclusion vehicles in the development of functional beverages.