Food science and technology bulletin : functional foods. Volume 6

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 Contents --
 1 OPINION PAPER Health claims on foods: strength of the evidence and problems of proof --
 2 An introduction to probiotics for dental health --
 3 Probiotics for the elderly --
 4 The nutritional and health benefits of almonds: a healthy food choice --
 5 Alterations of immune function and gut microbiota with ageing --
 6 Flax lignans: new opportunities for functional foods --
 7 Development and functional properties of Bimuno:a second-generation prebiotic mixture --
 8 The application of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics in companion animals --
 9 Prebiotics and probiotics: potential strategies for reducingtravellers' diarrhoea in athletes competing abroad.
 Abstract:             This book is a journal that delivers concise and relevant peer-reviewed minireviews of developments in selected areas of functional foods