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 6 of the Bulletin include minireviews on: An introduction to probiotics for dental health; The nutritional and health benefits of almonds: a healthy food choice; Probiotics for the elderly; Flax lignans: new opportunities for functional foods; The application of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics in companion animals; and Prebiotics and probiotics: potential strategies for reducing travellers diarrhoea in athletes competing abroad.
