Ana Cristina Silveira Martins, Gracy Kelly Vieira de Vasconcelos Medeiros, Sônia Paula Alexandrino de Oliveira, Thatyane Mariano Rodrigues de Albuquerque, Karoliny Brito Sampaio, Marcos Dos Santos Lima, Yuri Mangueira do Nascimento, Evandro Ferreira da Silva, Josean Fechine Tavares, Marcelo Sobral da Silva, Evandro Leite de Souza, Maria Elieidy Gomes de Oliveira
This study investigated the potential impacts of the flour from Cereus jamacaru cactus cladodes (CJF), a cactus native to the Brazilian Caatinga biome, on the growth and metabolism of different potentially probiotic strains, as well as on the abundance of selected intestinal bacterial populations and microbial metabolic activity during in vitro colonic fermentation with a pooled human fecal inoculum. Cultivation of the probiotics in a medium with C. jamacaru cladodes flour (20 g/L) resulted in viable cell counts of up to 9...
December 2023: Food Research International