Review Article

Food-Origin Lactic Acid Bacteria May Exhibit Probiotic Properties: Review

Table 1

Overall framework for probiotic and nonprobiotic products.

Live culturesNot-live cultures
ProbioticsNot-probiotics

(1) Probiotic drugs
(2) Probiotic medical foods
(3) Probiotic foods
(4) Non-oral probiotics
(5) Probiotic animal feed
(6) Defined microbial consortia
(7) Probiotic dietary supplement
(8) Probiotic infant formula
(1) Fermented foods with undefined microbial content
(2) Undefined consortia including faecal microbiota transplant
(1) Postbiotics
(2) Inactivated bacterial cells

According to [1, 9].