Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and Improved Gastrointestinal Survival

• Effect of the addition of the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. Lactis (BB-12) in free and microencapsulated form and the prebiotic inulin to synbiotic dry coppa.

  • 2022-08
  • Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) 158
  • • Talita Aparecida Ferreira de Campos
    • Annecler Rech de Marins
    • Natallya Marques da Silva
    • Marcos Antonio Matiucci
    • Iza Catarini Dos Santos
    • Claudete Regina Alcalde
    • Maria Luiza Rodrigues de Souza
    • Raquel Guttierres Gomes
    • Andresa Carla Feihrmann

  • PubMed: 35840239
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2022.111544

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Gastrointestinal Survival

  • Low evidence

  In the in vitro gastrointestinal simulation, the BB-12 strain showed survival and growth capacity in saline solution and at low pH values for all treatments.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

• In vitro evaluation of gastrointestinal survival of Lactobacillus amylovorus DSM 16698 alone and combined with galactooligosaccharides, milk and/or Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Bb-12.

  • 2011-09
  • International Journal of Food Microbiology 149(2)
  • • R. C. Martinez
    • A.-E. Aynaou
    • S. Albrecht
    • H. Schols
    • E. D. De Martinis
    • E. Zoetendal
    • K. Venema
    • S. Saad
    • H. Smidt

  • PubMed: 21741105
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2011.06.010

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Gastrointestinal Survival

  • Low evidence

  Co-administration of L. amylovorus with GOS, PSM and/or Bb-12 increased its survival in comparison with the control significantly from the 4th hour after ingestion onwards (P<0.05).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes