FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (9): 609-612.

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Review of Functional Foods from Microorganisms

 WU  Qing-Ping, WU  Jun-Lin, ZHANG  Ju-Mei, WU  Hui-Qing   

  1. 1.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application ,Guangdong Institute of Microbiology;2.South China Sea Institute of Oceanology;3.Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Online:2005-09-15 Published:2011-09-20

Abstract: The origin of functional foods was extensive including plants, animals and microorganisms. Functional foods gained from microorganism by means of fermentation were mainly functional factors and foods made by biotechnology. Some func- tional factors, existed in natural but their concentration are very low, could be enriched by microorganisms. Presently, gaining functional foods by microorganisms is a hot research point in functional foods study. These functional foods mainly include fungous polysaccharides, functional oil, microecologics, functional oligosaccharides, L-carnitine, bioactive peptides and monascus.

Key words: microbiology, functional food, fermentation