date:Jan 23, 2019
em healthy.
Prof Chen added that the gum can also be used directly as a cheap medium to grow probiotics bacteria, which reduces the production costs for probiotic beverages.
The total cost for conventional industrial processes to produce probiotic compounds is estimated at about $60 for every litre of the growth medium, he said.
In comparison, our discovery at NTU would only cost around $13 per litre to produce, which is 4.5 times more cost effective.