Cover -- 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
Summary
This book is a journal that delivers concise and relevant peer-reviewed minireviews of developments in selected areas of functional foods