Beneficial Effects of Probiotics

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INTRODUCTION
Probiotics are ingestable microorganisms which gives the consumer a beneficial effect. First coined by the late eli Metchnikoff probiotics are described to be microorganisms which are ingested in small amount to increase the diversity of both flora and fauna inside the human body this reaction in turn affects the adaptation abilities for the human body to react to different surroundings, digest different things, or just improve the antibody or the mechanism that already exists in the human body.
This mechanism of diversity caused by many flora inside the digestive track of humans are beneficial because it helps with the digestion of a more diverse product. Even if the probiotic does not help with digestion some other probiotic are useful in a sense that their byproduct or sometimes their metabolism can further enhance the metabolism or other processes in the human body.
In this discussion non-dairy product are the main highlight because of the presence of lactose intolerant consumer. The presence of this type of consumer leads to the void of probiotic food market for the lactose intolerant since many probiotic product contain milk or lactose in some form. Milk is often used in the creation of probiotics because it is a great medium for the genus of lactobacillus which are commonly used because of its versatility and ability to produce numerous beneficial effects.
To suite the lactose intolerant probiotics food market there are products such as good belly which is a probiotic juice. Juice is used because of its low production cost. This coupled with a few other factors such as nutritions, taste, etc. juice is also used because it contains no gluten, lactose, and has a very little chance of bringing allergens because...

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Inside the human body lactobacillus plantarum 229v gives a myriad of helpful benefits ranging from the gastro intestinal help it can give to any mal-digestion issues. Because of its vast array of carbon sources this microorganism is comparable to a swiss army knife of probiotics it can cover many things and help enhance any other pre-existing process within the human body.
Both of these fact coupled with high vitamins and minerals offered by fruit juices makes a product such as a probiotic fruit juice a very healthy alternative to any dairy based probiotic product. In my opinion this can even be used a therapy for anyone suffering of maldigestion futher adding another benefit to the health benefit repertoire of the probiotic fruit juice product.

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