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Abstract
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
During the two last decades, marked changes in understanding the role of food in human health promotion have been observed. Many efforts have been done in this field to make the food functional. Functional foods are nutrients that have an effect on physiological processes separate from their established nutritional function. Functional foods include a wide rage of dietary supplements including probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics are now perceived by consumers to be beneficial in maintaining their health and prevention of diseases.
Dairy foods containing probiotics are a major and growing segment of the world’s market for functional foods capable of producing health benefits. Yoghurt is the most popular fermented dairy product in Egypt and world wide. Many health benefits have been attributed to yoghurt such as improved lactose intolerance, protection against gastrointestinal infection, effective treatment for specific types of diarrhea and cholesterol reduction.
Probiotics are selected viable microorganisms that when consumed in sufficient quantities; affect beneficially the consumer health. Among the probiotic bacteria strains, bifidobacteria are well represented in commercial probiotic dairy products. The interest of people and the dairy industry in fermented milks with added probiotic bifidobacteria has been increasing. Dairy-related bifidobacteria are already used in a wide variety of probiotic dairy products including milk, cheese, frozen yoghurt-like product and ice cream. The beneficial effects of the probiotics on human and its use in the medical practice have been reviewed.
Prebiotics are non digestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and or the activity of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon. Synbiotics are mixture of probiotics and prebiotics together.
Talbina is a gentle soup made from barley bran flour, milk like. Because of its whiteness and gentility, the name ”Talbina” is derived from Laban (milk in Arabic). It has a considerable therapeutic value and has been prescribed as a cure for many diseases in Sunnah. Documented scientific evidences have been driven which justified Prophet Muhammad (peace upon Him) sayings concerning Talbina (See Review chapter).
The objective of this study was to produce new types of healthy fermented milks using beneficial probiotics and natural sources additives as prebiotics in order to serve synbiotic functional foods with high nutritional value, safe to all age groups and provide all mentioned benefits.