Probiotic strains are claimed to confer health benefits to human organisms when consumed
in adequate amounts. Thus, over the last decades there has been an increased interest in …

Health awareness has grown to a greater extent among consumers and they are looking for
healthy probiotic counterparts. Keeping in this view, the present review focuses recent …

Recently, the focus of scientific investigations has moved from the primary role of food as the
source of energy and body‐forming substances to the more subtle action of biologically …

Pineapple is an economically significant plant and the third most important fruit crop in the
tropical and subtropical regions of the world. In this study, fermentation of pineapple juice …

Foods are carriers for the delivery of probiotics to the human body. In addition, foods help to
buffer the probiotic through the gastrointestinal tract, regulate their colonization and contain …

Background With almost thirty years of application in field of probiotics, microencapsulation
is becoming an important technology for sustaining cell viability during food production …

The development of functional foods through the addition of bioactive compounds holds
many technological challenges. Microencapsulation is a useful tool to improve the delivery …

There is evidence documenting the beneficial health effects of probiotic microorganisms.
Also, many studies have reported that the best matrices to deliver probiotic are dairy …

Due to the fact that probiotic cells need to be alive when they are consumed, culture-based
analysis (plate count) is critical in ascertaining the quality (numbers of viable cells) of …

The addition of microencapsulated probiotic cells to food products is a relatively new
functional food concept. Most of the published scientific research in this field is not older than …