Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Probiotic Nutrition

We have billions of friendly bacteria active in digestive tract. Each person’s bacterial flora may be as single as fingerprints. Friendly bacteria assistance in digesting the food and absorb nutrients effectively. In a sense, many components of our food cannot be digested in mutual— the bacteria digest it. The probiotic bacteria used in commercial products today are mainly members of the genera Lactobacillus and Bifid bacterium. Enteral nutrition usually refers to any method of feeding that uses the Gastro Intestinal (GI) tract to deliver part or all of a person's caloric requirements. It can include a normal oral diet, the use of liquid additions or delivery of part or all of the daily requirements by use of a tube (tube feeding). The discussion would acquaint you with the complications of enteral feeding, home therapy connected to enteral feeding etc.