Abstract
Probiotics have been considered as an economical and safe alternative for the treatment of a large number of chronic diseases and improvement of human health. Probiotics are the most useful tools for balancing the gut microbiota and thereby influencing human health and disease. Probiotics have a range of effects, from those on nutritional status to medical conditions throughout the body from the gut to non-intestinal body sites such as the brain and skin. Probiotics are traditionally considered as health-positive microorganisms within foods or in the form of "a dietary supplement". Hence, the aim to formulate probiotic foods with certain with beneficial effects on human is one of the main goal of nutraceutical industries.
Keywords
probiotics
functional foods
Lactobacilli
bifidobacteria
ERC sector(s)
LS Life Sciences
Fields of study
Name supervisor
Cinzia Randazzo
E-mail
cranda@unict.it
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Agricultural, food and Environment
Name of the host University
University of Catania (UNICT)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
leonardo.mirabella@studium.unict.it
Country
Italy
Thesis level
Master
Minimal language knowledge requisite
English B2
Thesis mode
On-site
Start date
Length of the research internship
6 months
Financial support available (other than E+)
No