IMPORTANCE OF PREBIOTICS AND PROBIOTICS AS NUTRACEUTICAL

Krishanu Samanta*, Abhishek Maurya, Aditya Kapoor and Anurag Sharma

ABSTRACT

The knowledge of nutraceuticals and its importance gaining increase in current centuries but it is our misfortune that proper chemical and pharmacological evaluation of most of these nutraceuticals have not done till now. Keeping this view, details studies on medicinal importance of prebiotics and probiotics as nutraceutical study have done. It is a very important supplement as a gift of the nature for living beings. In preventive medicinal system, it is used in different troubles as well as it possesses different important pharmacological activities. Nutraceuticals are dietary supplements, utilized to perfect health, delay senescence, prevent diseases, and support the proper functioning of the human body. Currently nutraceuticals are gaining substantial attention due to nutrition and therapeutic potentials. Based on their sources, they are categorized as dietary supplements and herbal bioactive compounds. The global market for nutraceutical is huge i.e. approximately USD 117 billion. Herbal nutraceutical helps in maintaining health and promoting optimal health, longevity, and quality of life. The health benefits imparted by probiotics and prebiotics have been the subject of extensive research in the past few decades. These food supplements termed as functional foods have been demonstrated to alter, modify and reinstate the pre-existing intestinal flora. They also facilitate smooth functions of the intestinal environment. It includes definition of prebiotics and probiotics and their examples, sources, health benefits, risk factors, future aspects etc.

Keywords: Nutraceutical, Prebiotics, probiotics, food.