Prebiotics and Probiotics Science and Technology

This is a 1,265-page Springer academic reference, and it does exactly what that implies: comprehensive, structurally rigorous, peer-reviewed coverage of probiotic and prebiotic science through 2009. For a food scientist or microbiome researcher needing a foundational reference text, it is genuinely authoritative. General readers have no business here, and the 2009 publication date means practitioners will need to supplement with current literature, but within its intended audience it scores well.