CERELA   05438
CENTRO DE REFERENCIA PARA LACTOBACILOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Vitamin Production by Native and Genetically Modified Lactic Acid Bacteria. Use for the development of novels foods and other applications
Autor/es:
JEAN GUY LEBLANC
Lugar:
Limeira
Reunión:
Workshop; II International Workshop on Advances of Probiotics for Food and Veterinary Applications; 2018
Institución organizadora:
UNICAMP-Campus Limeira
Resumen:
Some Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) have the ability to produce certain vitamins such as the water soluble B Group vitamins folate, riboflavin, thiamine and vitamin B12. Vitamin production is a strain dependent trait. Growth media, food matrix and the conditions of the gastrointestinal tract can all affect vitamin production. Wild types strains isolated from a wide range of ecological niches (foods, animals, plants) and genetically modified LAB have been used in order to produce novel vitamin bioenriched foods. These foods or some of the vitamin producing strains have been able to exert beneficial effects in laboratory animal models and could be used for human consumption or animal production. Also, other non-nutritional functional properties of vitamin producing LAB such and anti-inflammatory, anti-colitis, anti-mucositis and potential anti-cancer effects have also been shown. These newly identified strains could be used as an economically feasible alternative to chemical fortification with folic acid (that does not exist in nature and that can cause many undesirable secondary effects) in order to provide health promoting effects to human and other animals health and well-being.