Mejía-Caballero, Alejandra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0240-2997
Marco, Maria L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-9766
Article History
Accepted: 9 June 2025
First Online: 23 July 2025
Competing interests
: M.L.M. serves on the board of directors of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics, a role which is unpaid and voluntary, and serves on the scientific advisory boards of NURA USA and the Cosun Nutrition Center international scientific expert network. A.M-.C. declares no competing interests.
: The authors acknowledge that papers authored by scholars from historically excluded groups are systematically under-cited. Every attempt has been made to reference relevant papers in a manner that is equitable in terms of racial, ethnic, gender and geographical representation.