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Probiotic is a Latin word which means for –life. As its name suggests these are the micro-organisms meant to support life. Probiotic are mainly present in our digestive system, and even though it’s main function is to help in digestion of the food but it also plays an important role in boosting the immune system and suppress growth of harmful microorganism in the body. The best example of role of probiotics can be understood with recently developed antibiotics. Many a times when we take antibiotic for certain diseases, there is a complaint about the acidity problem, ulcers in mouth etc. Therefore to protect from these side effects now a day’s many antibiotic are produced along with spores of lactic acid bacillus (Probiotics ) as its one of the component and which mainly help in restoring the normal bacterial flora of Gastrointestinal tract and help in restoring the digestion system. Examples of such antibiotics are amoxicillin, cloxaciling etc.
With the new research and isolation of new species, it has been found that almost 400 plus species of microorganism can be used as probiotic due to their specific properties which helps in improvement of digestive and immune system. Research have proved that probiotic can help in many dieses like Diarrhea, treating the lactose intolerance, in colon cancer treatment , in treating ulcers caused by mainly Helicobacter pylori, as well as can be a good food supplement. Apart from above mentioned uses Probiotics are used in preparation on ice creams, cold-drinks and in juices.
HOWARU straw is a straw developed by Danisco Company which has a thin layer of probiotic inside the straw, when animals take water; probiotic mix with liquids and are absorbed inside the body, thus helps indigestion. In Davis, university of California a new technique has been developed which helps probiotic to survive in acidic condition. This is done by encapsulating probiotic in calcium alginate, so it helps in improving the sustainability and stability of diary product. For such innovations, many patents are also registered.
With such innovations, those days are not far away, when single breakfast in the morning will not only digest the food in proper way but also will make us immune against different types of pathogenic microorganism those are encountered! Probiotic is a gift of nature and it also teaches us that symbiosis is a way of growing in life.