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

Table 3

Growth rate of L. acidophilus grown individually and cocultured in different concentrations of prebiotics in the MRS medium.

Prebiotic concentration (%)	GOS (%v/v)		FOS (%w/v)
	Individual cultured	Cocultured	Individual cultured	Cocultured
0 (control)	0.6446 ± 0.06^A,a	0.5743 ± 0.30^A,a	0.6446 ± 0.06^X,x	0.5743 ± 0.30^X,x
1	0.3379 ± 0.01^A,a	0.7895 ± 0.26^A,a	0.4703 ± 0.29^X,x	0.4322 ± 0.20^X,x
2	0.4301 ± 0.19^A,a	0.7691 ± 0.39^A,a	0.5287 ± 0.23^X,x	0.6357 ± 0.08^X,x
3	0.4065 ± 0.04^A,a	0.6268 ± 0.18^A,a	0.4802 ± 0.07^X,x	0.6580 ± 0.13^X,x
4	0.5049 ± 0.27^A,a	0.6583 ± 0.25^A,a	0.6848 ± 0.12^X,x	0.4625 ± 0.13^X,x
5	0.6796 ± 0.08^A,a	0.5806 ± 0.07^A,a	0.3546 ± 0.01^X,x	0.3971 ± 0.09^X,x

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