Cactus Mucilages : Nutritional, Health Benefits and Clinical Trials
Mauricio A. Ondarza
Review I Published June, 2016
Journal of Medical and Biological Science Research Vol.
2 (6), pp. 87-103
ABSTRACT
For a better understanding of the central function of the
intestinal flora, we must know that intestines are
constituted naturally by nearly 100 trillions of bacteria,
which by the way represents more than 10 times the number of
totally cells in our whole body. Those trillions of bacteria
are distributed by 500 or 1000 different species that form
our intestinal microbiota or flora. Speaking about the
fragile equilibrium of our intestinal flora, it is well
known that our intestinal flora´s quality is define from the
first days of our lives, it is alive and it evolutes
according to nutrition, sickness and drugs taken. If you eat
a lot of transform ailments, your intestinal bacteria will
suffer since those ailments will destroy the healthy
microbiota. In view of this exposition to pollutants which
affects us more and more every day, nutritionists recommend
to seed regularly good bacteria in our intestines through
the nourishment of fermented ailments or by taking
supplementary probiotics and to ingest prebiotics promotting
beneficial effects to this concern, cactus mucilages and
more precisely oligosaccharides are a promising ailment that
seems to promote either nutritional and health benefits to
the human intestinal microbiota.
Key words: Cactus, Mucilages, Oligosaccharides,
Intestinal microbiota, Health and nutritional benefits and
Synbiotics.
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