Fermented Food Guidelines for Children

Abstract

The authors try to synthesise their communication elsewhere on general fermented foods giving an emphasis to its use in children. Most nutritional guidelines in the world, including in Asian countries where fermented foods are widely used, do not mention fermented foods and beverages besides yoghurt as a dairy product. Children get their gut microbioma from the stage of birth and milking and the intestinal flora remains most the same throughout their life. Fermented foods and mushroom biomass may modulate the probiotic profile of gut flora.