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Disadvantages Of Probiotic Drinks

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, people are looking for food with high nutritional value that promote health benefits to them. Hence, it has become major trend among food industry to make a research and produce the food that can give benefits to health especially the one that can prevent disease or maintain health (Yoon et al. 2004). Healthy drink such as dairy product have become main choices among consumer. Consumption of healthy drinks enriched with active components such as probiotics, prebiotics, vitamin and mineral have become a trend among consumer. (Betoret et al. 2011).
Probiotic drinks is one of the healthy drinks that is popular among consumer who are very concern about their health especially related with their gastrointestinal …show more content…

The human gastrointestinal tract contains up to 1013 - 1014 cells (Savage, 1977). It show that a human gastrointestinal tract have a complex ecosystem made up of the gastrointestinal epithelium, immune cells and resident microbiota (Moal, et al., 2006; McCraken, et al., 2001). It is estimated a generation or doubling time between 1 and 4 per day. The three major sections of the human gastrointestinal tract are the stomach, the small intestine, and the large intestine. Each section of the organ on gastrointestinal tract has its own specific microorganism can be called microbiota as well. The stomach is primarily inhabited by aerobic gram-positive microorganisms (<103 CFU/g). The small intestine contains with the bacteria from the genera of Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Bacteriocides, and Streptococcus (103 - 104 CFU/g) and the large intestine is populated by a large numbers (1011 - 1012 CFU/g) of bacteria from the genera of Bacteriocides, Fusobacterium, Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, and Eubacterium (Savage, …show more content…

Potassium is important in cell metabolism and helps to reduce heart problems and stroke. The carotenoids, including beta-carotene, especially in the yellow and orange-fleshed bananas, are essential in protecting against Vitamin A deficiency and anemia (since Vitamin A is involved in iron metabolism). Carotenoids-rich food also protects the human body against diabetes, heart disease and cancers (Nelson et al., 2006;Wall, 2006).
Bananas are excellent sources of antioxidants such as Vitamin A, B and C, carotenoids namely lutein, α-carotene and β-carotene (Wall, 2006), and phenolic compounds such as catechin, epicatechin, lignin and tannins as well as anthocyanins (Lim et al., 2006;Sulaiman et al., 2010).

Banana is rich in starch and the foremost components are amylose and amylopectin. Sugars are present as 1.3% in total dry matter in unripe ones and rises up to 17% in ripe ones. (Wall, 2006).

Dietary fibers are also found abundantly in bananas which trap excess cholesterol in the colon and hence reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and artherosclerosis. Pectin, a soluble hydrocolloid fiber, can also help normalize movement through the digestive tract and ease constipation (Bazzano et al.,

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