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Compositions and methods for preparing and using a dietary supplement made from one or more natural polysaccharides previously incubated with a probiotic bacterium in a bioreactor system, characterized in that the bacterium processes the resulting processed polysaccharides and polysaccharides are provided in the nutritional supplement. Claim 4: The supplement according to Claim 1, characterized in that the polysaccharides comprise at least one of glucomannan, aloe glucomannan, konyac glucomannan, galactomannans, arabinogalactans, larch arabinogalactans, seaweed polysaccharides, polysaccharide, polysaccharides, polysaccharides, polysaccharides mushroom glucomannan, gum tragacanth, ghatti gum, xanthan gum, guar gum and acacia gum. Claim 10: A prebiotic dietary or nutritional supplement formulation comprising one or more natural polysaccharides and viable microbial cells of at least one of Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Leuconostoc, Acetobacter, Candida, Kluveromyces, Saccaromyces, Torccaromyces, Torccaromyces, Torccaromyces, Torchromes, Torchromes Debaryomyces, Zygosaccharomyces, Bacterioides, Bacillus, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptostreptococcus, Ruminococcus and Pediococcus. |