Delivering Bifidobacterium
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 12:10
in Health & Medicine
Some years ago, I was a bit mystified as to the distinction between prebiotics and probiotics. These days, one can easily look them up on Wikipedia, and find that prebiotics are meant to encourage the growth of ‘good’ bacteria in the gut, while probiotics are supposed to deliver the bacteria directly. Prebiotics are generally soluble oligo- or polysaccharides, known as dietary ‘fibre’, and one of the best sources of these is read more