About this Research Topic
Dietary habits have a strong influence on the selection of gut microbiota. Diet has a primary role over other factors such as age, gender, geography, and environment, in shaping the human gut microbiota. Nutrients from the traditional foods used in different countries and culture directly interact with human gut microorganisms to promote or inhibit their growth, and subsequently play a major role in overall health.
This Research Topic will publish high-quality scholarly review papers on this key topic in Food Microbiology. It aims to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Food Microbiology community. Subjects of interest include but are not limited to:
• Effect of traditional foods on infant and adult gut microbiota.
• Animal-derived and fermented traditional foods and their impact on gut microbiota as well as ancient grains, ancient spices, and herbs.
• Role of traditional foods in nutritional therapies for gut health, as well as dietary intervention and prebiotics to improve the gut microbiota and to treat the gut-associated diseases.
This Research Topic especially encourages:
• In vitro or in vivo studies focusing on the effect of such traditional foods on gut microbiota and their physiology.
• Animal model studies on traditional foods' impact on gut microbiota.
• Human dietary intervention studies analyzing the effect of traditional foods on the gut microbiota and health.
• New research methods including but not limited to omics approaches to assess the influence of traditional foods on the gut microbiota, such as shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research articles, Methods, Perspective, and Review articles.
This Research Topic will publish high-quality scholarly review papers on this key topic in Food Microbiology. It aims to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Food Microbiology community. Subjects of interest include but are not limited to:
• Effect of traditional foods on infant and adult gut microbiota.
• Animal-derived and fermented traditional foods and their impact on gut microbiota as well as ancient grains, ancient spices, and herbs.
• Role of traditional foods in nutritional therapies for gut health, as well as dietary intervention and prebiotics to improve the gut microbiota and to treat the gut-associated diseases.
This Research Topic especially encourages:
• In vitro or in vivo studies focusing on the effect of such traditional foods on gut microbiota and their physiology.
• Animal model studies on traditional foods' impact on gut microbiota.
• Human dietary intervention studies analyzing the effect of traditional foods on the gut microbiota and health.
• New research methods including but not limited to omics approaches to assess the influence of traditional foods on the gut microbiota, such as shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research articles, Methods, Perspective, and Review articles.
Keywords: gut microbiota, traditional foods, fermented foods, prebiotics, probiotics
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