From intestinal food to systems biology: the 30th anniversary of the prebiotic concept

1995: Making the connection with gut health. Although dietary oligosaccharides have long been used for health promotion, especially in Asia, it was not until 1995 that Glenn Gibson and Marcel Roberfroid expanded the definition of the prebiotic concept to include: “non-digestible food ingredients that beneficially affect the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity […]