Food Science and Technology Bulletin : Functional Foods Volume 4

Food Science and Technology Bulletin: Functional Foods is an online minireview 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 4 of the Bulletin include minireviews on: Prebiotics in ancient diets; Synbiotics: making the most of probiotics and prebiotics by their combinations; Bacterial spore formers as probiotics in poultry; Dietary-based gut flora modulation against Clodstridium difficile onset; Risk management of vitamins and minerals: a risk categorisation model for the setting of maximum levels in food supplements and fortified foods; and Microbial conjugated linoleic acid production - a novel probiotic trait?