When we buy probiotic products, we often see the slogans of "over 5 billion active probiotics" and "over 10 billion active probiotics". People who don't know about probiotics may have questions: Are probiotics really the more viable bacteria the better? Simply put, probiotic products are indeed the more live bacteria the better. However, the number of viable bacteria cannot simply be used to show that it is also closely related to other factors.
The key to improving intestinal problems and regulating the flora of probiotics is whether a sufficient number of probiotics can reach a suitable environment in the intestinal tract. In order to allow probiotics to reach the gut, probiotics are often protected by encapsulation.
What is the key to more effective live bacteria colonization of the gut?
Embedding technology is to use a certain material to make a microcapsule for probiotics, making it a protective umbrella to protect the probiotics from stomach acid, bile, and digestive enzymes to the intestines. In order to deal with the intrusion of probiotics in different environments, we must use composite materials for protection, which is the composite material embedding technology used by probiotics. The so-called composite material mainly refers to the use of various proteins and polysaccharides to protect probiotics. The gel formed by the protein has good pH sensitivity, controllable permeability and high gel strength. Due to these excellent properties of protein, protein has become a promising wall material for embedding probiotics, especially in the human digestive tract, which has been confirmed by many studies. Natural polysaccharides have the advantages of non-toxicity, good film-forming properties, low immunogenicity, good biocompatibility, degradability and non-toxic products.
Under the protection of the composite material of the composite material embedding technology, after reaching the stomach, the probiotics can safely pass through the gastric acid through the coagulation of the composite material, and at the same time, the anti-bile material is used to avoid the influence of bile on the probiotics. After these harsh conditions, the outside part of the probiotic complex is digested by digestive enzymes. With the help of colonization technology, probiotics can precisely reach the most suitable environment. Lactobacillus will first colonize the small intestine, and bifidobacteria will also pass through the alkaline environment of the small intestine under the protection of the embedding technology, and reach the large intestine to play a role. Therefore, the number of viable bacteria is important, but how to allow more probiotics to colonize the intestine is more important.