Effect of Prebiotics-Enhanced Probiotics on the Growth of Streptococcus mutans

Table 1

pH of the culturing medium when cultured for 6 h.

Prebiotic concentrations (%)	Individual culture				Coculture
	S. mutans		L. acidophilus		S. mutans and L. acidophilus
	GOS	FOS	GOS	FOS	GOS	FOS
0	5.98 ± 0.12^A		5.19 ± 0.31^A		5.34 ± 0.01^A
1	5.95 ± 0.11^A,a	6.16 ± 0.02^A,a	5.04 ± 0.22^A,a	5.32 ± 0.33^A,a	5.38 ± 0.39^A,a	5.34 ± 0.31^A,a
2	6.01 ± 0.05^A,a	6.21 ± 0.02^A,a	5.11 ± 0.17^A,a	5.39 ± 0.35^A,a	5.32 ± 0.57^A,a	5.32 ± 0.30^A,a
3	5.96 ± 0.09^A,a	6.21 ± 0.10^A,a	5.07 ± 0.23^A,a	5.38 ± 0.29^A,a	5.31 ± 0.24^A,a	5.33 ± 0.51^A,a
4	5.94 ± 0.05^A,a	6.16 ± 0.10^A,a	5.00 ± 0.20^A,a	5.34 ± 0.36^A,a	5.09 ± 0.22^A,a	5.31 ± 0.33^A,a
5	5.90 ± 0.19^A,a	6.16 ± 0.11^A,a	5.11 ± 0.28^A,a	5.38 ± 0.42^A,a	5.10 ± 0.48^A,a	5.28 ± 0.35^A,a

Note. The statistics compared within each type of prebiotics. The uppercase letters indicate the significant difference within each column. The lowercase letters indicate the significant difference within each row.