Publisher's Synopsis
Food Science and Technology Bulletin: Functional Foods is an online review journal that delivers concise and relevant peer-reviewed minireviews of developments in selected areas of functional foods. Newly published minireviews are compiled to form an annual printed volume. Contents for Volume 7 of the Bulletin include minireviews on: Dietary prebiotics: current status and new definition; Microalgae - source of natural bioactive molecules as functional ingredients; Functional foods: the Chinese point of view; Shaping the human microbiome with prebiotic foods - current perspectives for continued development; The potential of probiotics as in-feed growth enhancers for swine; and Risk management of vitamins and minerals in Europe: quantitative and qualitative approaches for setting maximum levels in food supplements for children.
