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Evaluation of Bifidobacterium breve strain Yakult-fermented soymilk as a probiotic food.

Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, 1796 Yaho, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan.
International Journal of Food Microbiology (impact factor: 3.33). 04/2003; 81(2):131-6. pp.131-6
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ABSTRACT We evaluated the effects of Bifidobacterium breve-fermented soymilk on probiotic function. An administered strain of B. breve strain Yakult was capable of growing in soymilk with no additives as high as 10(9) CFU/ml. During storage of the fermented soymilk at 10 degrees C for 20 days, viable counts of the strain did not change. The growth inhibition of the strain in a bile-containing medium was lessened by the addition of soy protein. In human feeding experiments, the administered B. breve was recovered at a level of over 10(9) CFU/g faeces, accompanied by an increase in the total number of bifidobacteria. These results indicate that fermented soymilk with B. breve strain Yakult could be a novel type of probiotic food.

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Keywords

10 degrees C
 
administered strain
 
B. breve strain Yakult
 
Bifidobacterium breve-fermented soymilk
 
bile-containing medium
 
fermented soymilk
 
novel type
 
probiotic food
 
probiotic function
 
soy protein
 
soymilk
 
total number
 

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