Prebiotics: Concept, definition, criteria, methodologies, and products

Handbook of Prebiotics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 58-87

  Roberfroid, Marcel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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