Should probiotics be eaten before or after meals?

Probiotics to the public must be no stranger, casually visit the drugstore will see Lin full purpose probiotic health care products, but probiotics should be so to eat?on the Internet have their own arguments. When exactly should probiotics be taken to achieve the best results? There is agreement on when to add probiotics. Some think that the most suitable time to eat probiotics, is on an empty stomach, because at this time the stomach acid secretion is less, probiotics will not be destroyed; Some people think that the best time to supplement lactic acid bacteria is after meals, because after eating, the stomach acidity is lower, lactic acid bacteria are more alive through the stomach and reach the intestines. It is clear from the above two arguments that the destruction of stomach acid is an important key to affect the probiotic beach to reach the intestines.Some commercially available probiotic products have special technology
(
buried technology, special acid-resistant bacteria
)
and so on, can withstand acid and alkali, not damaged by stomach acid and bile, if this is such a product, it is recommended to use before meals, because on an empty stomach the stomach empty for about an hour, probiotics can quickly reach the intestines, to achieve the role of the whole intestine.if it's a probiotic product that's not particularly acid-resistant, when should I eat it? As can be seen from the figure below, the stomach changes after eating
PH
, the value of
PH
in the stomach before meals is about
2
, and stomach acid is affected by the food and the effect
PH
Rising, the value of
1
hours
PH
gradually fades, especially after meals
2
hours
PH
value is lower than
2
. Therefore, from the
of
pH, non-acid-resistant probiotics are recommended to be taken with food.Next we look at it from an empirical point of view. In

Beneficial Microbes
,
1
, 2011, the use of in-body simulations of the human digestive tract Module
(IViDiS)
system to experiment with the commercially available probiotic
"ProtecFlor®"
when to take, it can eventually reach the largest number of bacteriaintestines. The following table shows the survival division of probiotics in the gastrointestinal ectes, figure
(A)
represents the survival rate of
Lactobacilli
and figure
(B)

biofidobacterium longum
survival rate, figure
(C)
represents
Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii
survival rate.From the table we can clearly see that non-specific dosage form probiotics
(Non-microencapsulate probiotics
used in
30
minutes before or with the meal, the survival rate is higher, after the meal
30
minutes with the lowest survival rate.references to

1
, Beneficial Microbes, December 2011; 2(4): 295-303. The impact of meals on a probiotic during transit through a model of the human upper gastrointestinal tract