Prebiotic vegetable snack: a delicious food with functional potential
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probiotic, prebiotic, agavins, snackAbstract
Today, society spends less time cooking healthy foods and opts for easily accessible products such as "junk foods". Snacks are tasty and affordable foods that meet consumer demands. In Mexico, 80 % of the population consumes sweet and salty snacks with high energy content, which constitute a risk factor for the population's health. However, consumer awareness about the connection between diet and health is increasing. Natural and dehydrated fruits represent only about 20 % of the consumption of healthy snacks in Mexico and preparing a vegetable snack enriched with a functional ingredient such as prebiotics with a pleasant flavor can help increase the consumption of vegetables. Agavinas (Agave fructans) are prebiotics resistant to the gastrointestinal tract that reach the colon and are fermented by the microbiota present and thus stimulate the colonization of probiotic microorganisms in the colon whose presence is closely related to human health.
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