May 27th，2020

by Jimmy Fu

As the most common food in people's daily life, dairy products are nutritious and rich in protein, vitamins and minerals. As a new type of functional food ingredients and due to the remarkable immune enhancing property, yeast beta-glucan is also used widely in functional foods and health products. A study showed that dairy products adding yeast beta-glucan (provided by Angel Yeast Co., Ltd.) can significantly improve the immune function of dairy products ^[1].

In this study, healthy mice were selected and divided into 4 dosage groups and fed dairy with different concentrations of yeast beta-glucan. The concentrations of yeast beta-glucan were 0, 8. 0, 17. 0, and 50.0g/L, and the dosage in mice was 10ml/kg, once a day. After continuous feed for 1 month, various indexes of immune enhancement function were measured.

Results and conclusion

(1) Cellular immune function

The detection of lymphocyte activity in different groups of mice showed that the 0.5g/kg group was significantly higher than those in the 0g/kg group.

(2) Humoral immune function.

The results showed that the antibody production in the 0.17g/kg and 0.5g/kg groups was significantly higher than those in the 0g/kg group.

(3) NK cell activity.

The results of NK cell activity measurement showed that the NK cell activity in the 0.5g/kg group was significantly higher than those in the 0g/kg group.

The study confirmed that yeast beta-glucan can significantly enhance the immune function in dairy products. This study laid the theoretical foundation for yeast beta-glucan to be widely used in dairy products. As people continue to pay attention to immune function, it is believed that yeast beta-glucan will continue to be applied to more foods in the near future.

Reference

[1] Ji Guozhi, Qian Wentao, et al. Study of enhancing immune function on yeast β-glucan milk. China Dairy Industry, 2011,39(7), 22-24,28.

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