Bifidobacterium plantarum and Improved Mineral Absorption

• Screening of probiotics for promoting mineral absorption based on in vitro fermentation and cell models.

  • 2026-02-26
  • Frontiers in microbiology 17
  • • Bin Liu
    • Yuejian Mao
    • Jing Yang
    • Linjun Wu
    • Xiaoqiong Li
    • Xiangyu Bian
    • Jian Kuang
    • Jianqiang Li
    • Fangshu Shi
    • Ying Luo
    • Peiqing Jiang
    • Jinjun Li
    • Haibiao Sun

  • PubMed: 41834858
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1743657

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Mineral Absorption

  • Low evidence

  Phytase activity assays revealed that both intracellular and extracellular enzyme activities of L. plantarum Fe-01 and B. lactis Ca360 were significantly higher than those of L. plantarum 299v.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes