Nutrition
Postbiotic Foods
Postbiotic foods deliver beneficial compounds made after fermentation—heat-killed cultures, SCFAs, and bioactive peptides—without requiring live bacteria to survive digestion. Examples include some aged ferments and foods whose microbes already produced metabolites in processing.
Postbiotic foods deliver beneficial compounds made after fermentation—heat-killed cultures, SCFAs, and bioactive peptides—without requiring live bacteria to survive digestion. Examples include some aged ferments and foods whose microbes already produced metabolites in processing.
They complement probiotics and prebiotic fiber rather than replacing them.
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