Prebiotics and synbiotics: How do they affect health?

Clinical Insights: Probiotics, Prebiotics and Gut Health

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 47-61

  Verbeke, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84957372259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2217/EBO.13.500     Document Type: Chapter

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