Bioprox Healthcare more recently developed a wide range of postbiotics (inanimate bacteria), suitable for many new market segments:
Petfood products
Cosmetics
Food & beverages
Food supplements
Bacteria do not always need to be alive to exert beneficial well-being effects.
A “postbiotic” is defined as “a preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confer a health benefit on the host”. Thus, postbiotics may contain intact inanimate microbial cells or microbial cell fragments with benefic metabolites for the hosts.
Postbiotic may contain
intact inanimate
microbial cells
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And/or microbial cell
fragments (membranes, lysates, organites…)
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With or without metabolites (endproducts, SCFAs, bacteriocines, enzymes…)
Clinical trials have demonstrated health benefits of postbiotics in many areas such as infectious diseases, intestinal health, allergies, stress etc., both in humans and animals.
The health benefits of postbiotics are largely due to the interactions between molecules on the surface of bacterial cells (or their intracellular components) and host cells.
These interactions trigger pathways involved in inflammation, immune response, epithelial barrier function, metabolism and nervous system signaling, much like the probiotics.
The high-quality and post-process enumeration of your future postbiotic products can be checked by flow cytometry at our QC laboratory.
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Generally speaking, unlike live bacteria that may require specific conditions to remain stable over time, postbiotics are inanimate and thus, possess many advantages:
Their stability throughout shelf life enables them to withstand food processing and face fewer regulatory constraints.
They do not need special storage conditions such as refrigeration, making them easier to store and transport.
This allows us to add beneficial bacteria in new categories of food and feed-products and even cosmetic products.
You have a project involving postbiotics?
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This communication is not intended for consumers of final consumer goods.
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