Light shed on the secret behind probiotic bacteria promoting health
Date: 25.10.2009
**Functional food** is the food industry’s fastest-growing product group, its leading products including dairy products which contain **probiotics**, that is, bacteria promoting health.
Valio’s *Lactobacillus rhamnosus* GG (LGG®) is the most frequently studied and used probiotic. Under the supervision of researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology, and the Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences at the University of Helsinki, an international research team determined the **genome sequences** of LGG and a bacterium closely related to it. The results, published in the renowned PNAS journal, shed light on the origin of **probiotic mechanisms** and promote product development in the food industry.
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