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Fungal Production of Prebiotics

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Abstract

Functional foods are nowadays very popular due to their health benefits, and they confer to their consumers. The most important functional food gaining wide acceptance is prebiotics. Various oligosaccharides are exhibiting prebiotic effect on their consumers.

The prominent and most predominating type of prebiotics is the fructooligosaccharides (FOS). FOS are naturally occurring in plants, fruits, vegetables, and animal products. The microbial enzymes are of prime importance in synthesis and industrial production of prebiotics. Apart from microbes, plants also have enzymes for synthesis of prebiotics.

Among microbes, fungal enzymes are much preferred as industrial tool for prebiotic synthesis. Fungal enzymes exhibit favorable characteristics to withstand industrial environmental conditions.

This chapter deals with production of prebiotics with special reference to FOS by fungi, nature of the fungal enzyme, its mechanism of action, types of products, production of Ftase, and production of fructooligosaccharides.

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Belorkar, S.A. (2020). Fungal Production of Prebiotics. In: Hesham, AL., Upadhyay, R., Sharma, G., Manoharachary, C., Gupta, V. (eds) Fungal Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41870-0_10

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