Classification of Metabiotics and their Brief Description

Abstract

Commercially available metabiotics can be divided according to their composition into dietary supplements, functional and personal foods, therapeutics, cosmetic products (liquid, dry, pastes, creams etc.); pharmaceuticals on the base of low molecular weight components related to structural components of microbial cells (Cellular metabiotics), low molecular weight metabolites and signaling microbial molecules (Metabolite metabiotics), metabiotics at the same time containing both microbial cell components and their metabolites and signaling molecules; hybrid multicomponent microbial components and metabolic and signaling molecules; metabolite formulations made with low molecular weight microbial components isolated from several microorganism strains or species; as well as hybrid multicomponent low molecular weight microbial and plant components and molecules. Also, semi-synthetic and synthetic metabiotics are currently being developed and launched on the food market. Metabiotics may be used both independently and as nutritional supplements to various known microecological therapeutics (Table 1) (Shenderov 2017; Shenderov et al. 2018a; Shenderov 2011a; Shenderov 2013a).