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Probiotic bacteria in fermented foods: product characteristics and starter organisms 1 , 2 , 3

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2001
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Title
Probiotic bacteria in fermented foods: product characteristics and starter organisms 1 , 2 , 3
Published in
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2001
DOI 10.1093/ajcn/73.2.374s
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Authors

K J Heller

Abstract

Probiotic bacteria are sold mainly in fermented foods, and dairy products play a predominant role as carriers of probiotics. These foods are well suited to promoting the positive health image of probiotics for several reasons: 1) fermented foods, and dairy products in particular, already have a positive health image; 2) consumers are familiar with the fact that fermented foods contain living microorganisms (bacteria); and 3) probiotics used as starter organisms combine the positive images of fermentation and probiotic cultures. When probiotics are added to fermented foods, several factors must be considered that may influence the ability of the probiotics to survive in the product and become active when entering the consumer's gastrointestinal tract. These factors include 1) the physiologic state of the probiotic organisms added (whether the cells are from the logarithmic or the stationary growth phase), 2) the physical conditions of product storage (eg, temperature), 3) the chemical composition of the product to which the probiotics are added (eg, acidity, available carbohydrate content, nitrogen sources, mineral content, water activity, and oxygen content), and 4) possible interactions of the probiotics with the starter cultures (eg, bacteriocin production, antagonism, and synergism). The interactions of probiotics with either the food matrix or the starter culture may be even more intensive when probiotics are used as a component of the starter culture. Some of these aspects are discussed in this article, with an emphasis on dairy products such as milk, yogurt, and cheese.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Ukraine 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 529 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 125 23%
Student > Master 80 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 67 12%
Researcher 48 9%
Other 27 5%
Other 91 17%
Unknown 110 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 205 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 55 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 28 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 4%
Engineering 18 3%
Other 90 16%
Unknown 130 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2021.
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#1,071,244
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#2,068
of 12,618 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,198
of 113,997 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
#9
of 61 outputs
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