Nutrition, Dietetics & Health

Prebiotic Foods for a Healthy Gut
Scientific Studies to Manage Metabolic Disorders

Editors: Mini K. Sheth, PhD
Shruti Dwivedi, PhD

Prebiotic Foods for a Healthy Gut

Now on Press
Pub Date: Forthcoming April 2025
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774918524
E-Book ISBN: 9781003536819
Pages: 336pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 54 b/w illustrations

This new book, Prebiotic Foods for a Healthy Gut: Scientific Studies to Manage Metabolic Disorders, is the result of over 20 years of research and analysis in the field of gut health by experts in the field. The book focuses on prebiotics, a magical component that has proved its worth in the management of various metabolic disorders and other diseases. It includes results of thorough clinical experimentation that formed the basis for this research-based data in this book.

The book introduces prebiotics as a food component and goes on to cover the potential of various prebiotics and their safety, their proven health implications, their mechanisms of action, and their use in day-to-day consumption. The book provides an overview of highly dynamic gut molecular ecology and diversity and discusses potential factors that define a healthy gut. It also provides insight into recent developments in shaping the gut microbiota for improved human health.

The book examines the prevalence, etiology, and pathophysiology of various metabolic disorders and diseases, including recent research-based results on the management of disorders and diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, IBS, oral health, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and immunity. Different in vivo and in vitro techniques to evaluate prebiotic properties and the extraction and mechanism of prebiotic action are also covered. Other topics include certain prebiotics as functional foods, prebiotic regulatory issues, consumer attitudes, commercialization and market potentials of such prebiotic therapeutic products. To top it off, the book also includes an informative chapter on standardized recipes using prebiotics.

The book examines the prevalence, etiology, and pathophysiology of various metabolic disorders and diseases, including recent research-based results on the management of disorders and diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, IBS, oral health, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and immunity. Different in vivo and in vitro techniques to evaluate prebiotic properties and the extraction and mechanism of prebiotic action are also covered. Other topics include certain prebiotics as functional foods, prebiotic regulatory issues, consumer attitudes, and commercialization and market potentials of such prebiotic therapeutic products. To top it off, the book also includes an informative chapter on standardized recipes using prebiotics.

With its engaging style, this book will be of prime benefit for academicians, medical professionals, nursing staff, students of nutrition and dietetics, and others interested in the field of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics.

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO GUT MICROBIOME AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PREBIOTICS
1. Molecular Ecology of the Human Gut

Mini Sheth

2. Prebiotics
Mini Sheth

3. Factors Associated in Shaping the Gut Microbiota for Improved Health
Archana Gattupalli And Nareshkumar Gattupalli

PART II: EVIDENCE-BASED STUDIES ON THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF PREBIOTICS IN MANAGEMENT OF VARIOUS METABOLIC DISORDERS AND OTHER DISEASES
4. Prebiotics and Oral Health

Renu M. Sitlani

5. Role of Prebiotics in Gastrointestinal Health: Constipation
Kankona Dey

6. Prebiotics as A Symptom Reliever in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Arpi Shah

7. Role of Prebiotic and Fermented Beverages in Mental Health and Depression
Shruti Dwivedi

8. Psychobiotics for Manipulating Gut-Brain Axis in Alzheimer’s Disease
Shruti Dwivedi and Mini Sheth

9. Prebiotics in the Management of Diabetes
Ruchi Vaidya

10. Prebiotics in Obesity Management
Geeta Dharmatti

11. Probiotics During Pregnancy
Meghana Patel

12. Cancer and Prebiotics
Sujoya Sukul

13. Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Earliest Prebiotics and Their Impact on Infant Health and Immunity
Vijyata Sengar

PART III: EVALUATION AND EXTRACTION OF PREBIOTICS
14. Techniques to Evaluate Prebiotic Properties

V. H. Patel and Urvashi Mall

15. Xylooligosaccharide: A Potential Prebiotic
Abnita Thakuria

PART IV: ROLE OF PREBIOTICS AND SYNBIOTICS IN FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
16. Role of Prebiotics in Synbiotic Fermented Dairy Foods

Jana Ah and Hati Subrota

17. Prebiotic Food Product Development
Harsha Hirdyani

18. Standardized Prebiotic Recipes
Mini Sheth and Shruti Dwivedi


Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Mini K. Sheth, PhD
Head, Department of Foods and Nutrition, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Mini Sheth, PhD, is the Head of the Department of Foods and Nutrition at the Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. She has over 35 years of teaching and research experience and specializes in prebiotics and gut health, clinical dietetics, and food safety. She has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has applied for patents for prebiotic cakes and synbiotic beverages and holds copyrights for booklets on fructooligosaccharides-added sweets, prebiotics, and diabetes management. She has over 10 professional memberships, including the Probiotic Association of India, Indian Dietetic Association, Nutrition Society of India, and Association of Food Scientist and Technologists, India. She has held important positions including RD board member of the Indian Dietetic Association (2015–2019); President of the Indian Dietetic Association (Gujarat Chapter) from 2010 to Dec 2014; Deputy Director of a WHO collaborating center, FN Department (2010–2013); and Deputy Coordinator of a UGC/DSA SAP III program. She has undertaken projects sponsored by DBT, Government of India, and TCL on FOS and Obesity. She has guided over 20 PhD students and has received more than 25 awards and recognitions. She has a PhD in Foods and Nutrition (1994) and has been a Registered Dietitian since 1986.

Shruti Dwivedi, PhD
Founder of Nutrideck, Researcher, and Health Coach

Shruti Dwivedi, PhD, is a researcher and health coach. She has been awarded a Young Scientist Award by the Universal Society of Foods and Nutrition and the Swedish South Asian Network for Fermented Foods for her research work on the gut-brain axis. Her other accomplishments include UGC NET, SRF and ICAR AIEEA. She has membership in the Indian Dietetic Association and Nutrition Society of India. She has published papers in various peer-reviewed international and national journals. Her work on the gut and mental health connection has been featured in The Times of India, Gujarat Samachar, Sandesh Daily, and various peer-reviewed journals. As a consultant at MAMTA Health Institute of Mother and Child and a health coach at NGOs such as Kalam and Mahima, she has supervised various health camps and activities in rural as well as urban settings. She is on a mission to make people aware of mindful fitness. As founder of Nutrideck, she counsels people, both individually and in collaboration with organisations such as Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti and Kaka Ayurvedic Chiktsalya, on lifestyle management in order to combat noncommunicable diseases and raise awareness about healthy living. She received a doctorate degree in Public Health and Nutrition from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.




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