Open AccessA review of current analytical methods for the determination of prebiotics in foods
Author(s) -
Sơn Trần Hùng,
Thanh An Vũ Thị,
Thanh Hoa Mạc Thị,
Khánh Cao Công,
Hồng Hảo Lê Thị
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kiểm nghiệm và an toàn thực phẩm/kiểm nghiệm và an toàn thực phẩm (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2734-9152
pISSN - 2615-9252
DOI - 10.47866/2615-9252/vjfc.3791
Subject(s) - human health , prebiotic , food science , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , biochemical engineering , biology , engineering , environmental health
Prebiotics are a group that improves the human intestinal microbiota. The relationship between prebiotics and human health has been an area of increasing interest in recent years. Fructo-oligosaccharides and galacto-oligosaccharides are the two important groups of prebiotics with beneficial effects on human health. Besides that, more and more carbohydrates have shown a good potential to be prebiotics has been studied. This study presents a review of the characteristics, properties, and analytical methods used for the determination of prebiotics in food products. Most of the methods found using chromatographic methods, especially HPAEC - PAD but also another method, such as spectrometric methods have been presented. A discussion was presented highlighting the drawbacks of current analytical methods and the need to develop these methods to analyze the complex food samples containing prebiotics.