Results of the EU and Microfunction Project

摘要

Foods play a major role in the promotion and maintenance of health, and therefore, it is a major challenge to guarantee nutritious and safe diets to EU citizens and populations world-wide. The results from the EU and MICROFUNCTION Project do make a clear link between diet and health and they contribute to the growing scientific knowledge in the role that pre- and probiotics play in a healthy diet.rnDr. Anne Franck,Vice President of Research & Development at the BENEO-Group, comments: "The improvement in biomarkers of anti-oxidative activity seen with the synbiotic supplementation in this study is promising and warrants further research, especially since high oxidative stress is known to cause harm to our bodies."rnThe EU and MICROFUNCTION Project was highly successful given the results obtained and the high-fidelity technologies developed and used during the project duration. The results obtained provide new insights into the development of dietary recommendations to maintain and improve gut health, and advice on dietary-based policies to combat the economic burden of gut-associated and other Western diseases. They also give directions to the academic world to better understand and explore more in depth the mechanisms of pre- and probiotic interactions at the gut and systemic levels.