Bio-efficiencies of Probiotic Yoghurt and Fermented Sour Sobya Supplements on Gut Microbial Health and other Associated Health Biomarkers Among Egyptian Pre-school to School Age Children

Abstract

Adding different animal-sources to the diets of young children showed improvement in children's growth expressed as weight-for-age and height for-age Z-scores [5][6][7]. However, there is now concern that using milk to improve the nutritional status of Egyptian children

Dietary intervention with edible film-coated multistrain probiotic Lacticaseibacilli in nondairy food matrices significantly increased the recovery of fecal viable Lacticaseibacilli and improved the performance of several colonic biomarkers among slightly malnourished preschool children

“…Since blood sampling from healthy Egyptian children is prohibited by law, accordingly, it was not possible to monitor the blood profile. The outcomes of the present study regarding the increases in fecal LAB excretions, SCFA and s-Ig-A are comparable with those reported earlier on Egyptian children after the dietary intervention using Western probiotic L acidophilus LA1, 7 B bifidum animalis lactis 20 or a mixture of LAB–B bifidum animalis lactis. 19 These remarkable findings support the efficiency of the 3 probiotic LAB used in the present study.…”

“…The intervention also had a positive effect on accelerating the linear growth of the children using the urinary index (U-HPRO-I) as a biomarker of linear growth. 20 The global probiotics market in 2021 reached a value of USD 58.2 billion, with an estimated annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.5% until 2030, yielding a forecast revenue of USD 111.2 billion. 21 Major players in the probiotic food market are Western and Japanese companies.…”

“…The intervention also had a positive effect on accelerating the linear growth of the children using the urinary index (U-HPRO-I) as a biomarker of linear growth. 20…”

Beyond probiotic legend: ESSAP gut microbiota health score to delineate SARS-COV-2 infection severity

“…Further, CFU values were not provided on the packaging of full cream or skimmed yogurts. However, Bassuoni et al have worked out that a single 135 g daily portion of probiotic yogurt (PY) provided 1•4 × 10 9 CFU of Bifidum bacteria (16) Thus, a score of 0-3 was designed to assess the frequency of consumption of single serve PY as 0 = never ate; 1 = ≤1 per week; 2 = 2-6 times weekly; and 3 = every day.…”