A systematic review to identify biomarkers of intake for fermented food products

Genes & Nutrition

Edith J. M. Feskens¹  Elske M. Brouwer-Brolsma¹  Katherine J. Li²  Kathryn J. Burton-Pimentel³  Guy Vergères³ 

[1] Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands;Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands;Food Microbial Systems Research Division, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland;Food Microbial Systems Research Division, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland;

关键词: Fermented foods;    Dietary biomarkers;    Metabolites;    Dietary assessment;    Food intake biomarkers;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12263-021-00686-4

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundFermented foods are ubiquitous in human diets and often lauded for their sensory, nutritious, and health-promoting qualities. However, precise associations between the intake of fermented foods and health have not been well-established. This is in part due to the limitations of current dietary assessment tools that rely on subjective reporting, making them prone to memory-related errors and reporting bias. The identification of food intake biomarkers (FIBs) bypasses this challenge by providing an objective measure of intake. Despite numerous studies reporting on FIBs for various types of fermented foods and drinks, unique biomarkers associated with the fermentation process (“fermentation-dependent” biomarkers) have not been well documented. We therefore conducted a comprehensive, systematic review of the literature to identify biomarkers of fermented foods commonly consumed in diets across the world.ResultsAfter title, abstract, and full-text screening, extraction of data from 301 articles resulted in an extensive list of compounds that were detected in human biofluids following the consumption of various fermented foods, with the majority of articles focusing on coffee (69), wine (69 articles), cocoa (62), beer (34), and bread (29). The identified compounds from all included papers were consolidated and sorted into FIBs proposed for a specific food, for a food group, or for the fermentation process. Alongside food-specific markers (e.g., trigonelline for coffee), and food-group markers (e.g., pentadecanoic acid for dairy intake), several fermentation-dependent markers were revealed. These comprised compounds related to the fermentation process of a particular food, such as mannitol (wine), 2-ethylmalate (beer), methionine (sourdough bread, cheese), theabrownins (tea), and gallic acid (tea, wine), while others were indicative of more general fermentation processes (e.g., ethanol from alcoholic fermentation, 3-phenyllactic acid from lactic fermentation).ConclusionsFermented foods comprise a heterogeneous group of foods. While many of the candidate FIBs identified were found to be non-specific, greater specificity may be observed when considering a combination of compounds identified for individual fermented foods, food groups, and from fermentation processes. Future studies that focus on how fermentation impacts the composition and nutritional quality of food substrates could help to identify novel biomarkers of fermented food intake.

【 授权许可】

CC BY