Probiotics & Synbiotics : A need for healthy life

5^th International conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics

June 27, 2022 | Webinar

Mithilesh Jaiswal

Tropilite Biosciences Pvt Ltd, India

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Exp Food Chem

Abstract :

Due to bad routine lifestyle, eating of unhealthier foods with chemical preservative, drinking unsafe water and imbalanced diet affects our immune system badly. Supplementation with probiotics has shown promising results against various health problems. Probiotics are generally recognized as safe and provides several health benefits to the host. Health benefits have mainly been demonstrated for specific probiotic strains. The vast majority of probiotics strains that are used today are beneficial for healthy individuals. The probiotics alone or in combination of prebiotic referred as “Synbiotic” is helpful to reinforce our immune system. Now a day globally, Probiotics become a popular approach for managing digestive and immune health. It is also recommended by various medical professionals due to its effective therapeutic interventions. Probiotics helpful in many ways such as boosting the immune system, inhibition of pathogenic organism, prevention of cancer, reduction of inflammatory bowel disease, reducing cholesterol level, acute diarrhea etc. Due to high beneficial impact on human as well as animal health, these microorganisms have been used by various Foods, Pharma and Feed industries in their products. As a result awareness and demand of these probiotics products increases day by day. Probiotic also helps to support our economy as its market size growing continuously. Probiotics market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.0%, to reach USD 69.3 billion by 2023. The growth of the market is driven by several factors such as health benefits associated with probiotic-fortified foods and technological advancements in probiotic products. Probiotics may also provides business opportunity to several new entrepreneurs. Keywords: Probiotic, Prebiotic, synbiotic, therapeutic, Market.

Biography :

Dr. Mithilesh Jaiswal obtained his MSc (Bioscience) and PhD (Microbiology) from the University of Jabalpur (India). He is currently working on Probiotic cultures and development of synbiotic products for various Human and animal health application. His Ph.D. research was based on the Mycoherbicidal potential of different fungi for the biological control of hazardous weed like Parthenium. His area of interest is Probiotics, Starter cultures and Biofertilizers. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.