About this Research Topic
It is well understood that a postbiotic product has intrinsic and specific components that confer specific beneficial effects. The preparation process can result in a different postbiotic composition with different effects. As a new health effector, more research into the preparation of postbiotics, developing and evaluating their specific function, and elucidating the action of mode is required. Furthermore, developing the application in various areas such as functional foods, health care products and medicines, as well as demonstrating their interactions with matrices or hosts are very appealing and meaningful.
In this Research Topic we warmly welcome and encourage Original Research articles, Reviews, and Mini-reviews that cover, but are not limited to the following sub-topics:
• Preparation of postbiotics (enrichment of functional components, co-fermentation with multi-species of bacteria to produce more functional metabolites, inactivation methods, quantification methods, characterization and identification of the functional components, etc.);
• Postbiotics and host health;
• Postbiotics and gut health;
• Beneficial effects of postbiotics on gut microbiota and metabolic syndrome;
• Postbiotics and modulation of immune responses;
• Postbiotics and modulation of the nervous system;
• Application of postbiotics in the food system (development of functional foods, food preservation);
• Interaction between postbiotics and host.
Topic Editor Zhaojie Li is employed by YuanDa Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China. Topic Editor Chuantao Peng is the founder and Chairman of YuanDa Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China. Topic Editor Lukasz Krych is employed by GenXone S.A., Poland. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.
Keywords: postbiotics, metabolites, preparation, characterization, gut microbiota, function, gut health, modulation, interaction, application, functional foods, food preservation
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