FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (5): 194-198.

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Current Situation Review on Domestic and International Development of Probiotics Products

 DU  Peng, HUO  Gui-Cheng   

  1. College of Food Science, Northeast Agriculture University
  • Online:2004-05-15 Published:2011-10-24

Abstract: A probiotics is a live microbial feed supplement that exerts beneficial effects for the host via improvement of themicrobiological balance in the intestine. They have many kinds of other normal gut flora of incomparable physiological functionto organism. The probiotics that use both at home and abroad are lactobacillus and bifidobacteria mainly. At present, foreignprobiotic products are various in styles. Probiotics was developed in Japan earlier and its products have formed commercialscale. Many countries of EU have had varieties of probiotic products. Though USA starts relatively late in this respect, has alreadydeveloped a series of probiotics products rapidly. Our country catch probiotics and its products research of concern were alsorelatively backward in reaearch and rather different in benefit. Hope to have some domains of break-through in the future. In awords, the prospect of probiotic products is surely to be very bright.

Key words: probiotic, products, current situation