A probiotic is a live microbial feed supplement that exerts beneficial effects for the host via improvement of the microbiological balance in the intestine. Probiotics recently emerged as one of the most powerful microbial agents with multiple health promoting functions of considerable commercial value and therapeutic potential. Which are usually added to fermented milk products, or given as lyophilised forms. The rapid growth and demand for probiotic dairy based foods is largely attributed to the growing awareness among the consumers about linkage of diet/food with general health, discovery of newprobiotics with novel health-promoting physiological functions. It is nowwell recognized that metabolic inflammatory disorders associated with the malfunctioning of the human gut, such as diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcers, Crohn's disease (CD), constipation along with lactose intolerance, and other chronic lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, coloncancer, hypertension, and allergies canbe alleviated through consumption of probiotic cultures directly or their food formulations. Probiotics can be used either as prophylactics or as biotherapeutics as an effective alternative to drug treatment.
Probiotic, Microbiological Balance, Disorders, Biotherapeutics
