1 UOC di Nutrizione Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche Endocrino-Metaboliche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.
2 Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy.
3 Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences (DEB), Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.
In 2016, the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) provided a new definition of a prebiotic as "a substrate that is selectively utilized by host microorganisms conferring a health benefit" [...].