Probiotic immunomodulatory compositions

A food ingredient comprising a microbial community of non-culturable bacteria, wherein:

• i. the microbial diversity is at least 3 at Shannon diversity index;
• ii. the microbial richness is at least 130 operational taxonomic units;
• iii. the microbial abundance is at least 1,000,000 bacterial 16S copies g−1 ww;
• and
• the abundance of pathogens is below 500 16S gene sequences per 0.25 g sample in bacterial genera Acinetobacter, Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Aeromonas, Arcobacter, Bacillus, Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Brevibacillus, Brevundimonas, Chryseobacterium, Corynebacterium, Fibrobacter, Finegoldia, Gemella, Lactobacillus, Legionella, Leptotrichia, Moraxella, Mycobacterium, Myroides, Neisseria, Nocardia, Paenibacillus, Prevotella, Pseudomonas, Pseudonocardia, Psychrobacter, Rhodococcus, Rickettsia, Saccharomonospora, Sphingomonas, Stenotrophomonas, Streptococcus, and Treponema.