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ReviewComprehensive reviews in food science and food safety2025

Emerging Nonthermal Technologies for the Production of Postbiotics.

Rohit Thirumdas, Priti Mudgil

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Review in Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rohit ThirumdasMFPI-Quality Control Laboratory, Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India.ORCID 0000-0001-8945-943X
Priti MudgilDepartment of Food Science, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.ORCID 0000-0003-0809-485X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postbiotics, defined as nonliving microbial cells and their components that confer health benefits to the host, represent a significant advancement in functional foods and dietary supplements. Compared to probiotics and prebiotics, postbiotics offer advantages in product stability, safety, and formulation flexibility. In general practice, heat killing is a widely used method to produce postbiotics. However, heat-killed postbiotics incur few drawbacks, such as burnt flavor, denaturation of immunomodulatory molecules, and loss of functional metabolites. This review paper examines how emerging nonthermal technologies perform compared to conventional methods in producing postbiotics, emphasizing their suitability for industrial-scale implementation and the advantages they provide over conventional thermal processing. Based on literature, the review examines key nonthermal technologies, including high-pressure processing (HPP), pulsed electric fields (PEFs), ultrasound, cold plasma, supercritical CO

Indexed as

ProbioticsFunctional FoodHumansfunctional foodsnonthermal technologiesnutraceuticalspostbioticsprobioticspulsed electric fieldultrasonication

Identifiers

PMID41273201
PMCPMC12639491

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