Preserving the efficacy of probiotic bacteria exhibits paramount challenges that need to be
addressed during the development of functional food products. Several factors have been …

Probiotics provide several benefits for humans, including restoring the balance of gut
bacteria, boosting the immune system, and aiding in the management of certain conditions …

From the past few decades, consumers' demand for probiotic-based functional and healthy
food products is rising exponentially. Encapsulation is an emerging field to protect probiotics …

Prebiotics are short chain carbohydrates that are non-digestible by digestive enzymes in
humans and selectively enhance the activity of some groups of beneficial bacteria. In the …

In recent times, there has been growing recognition of the key role of foods and beverages
in disease prevention and treatment. Thus, the production and consumption of functional …

Food products contain various active ingredients, such as flavors, nutrients, unsaturated fatty
acids, color, probiotics, etc., that require protection during food processing and storage to …

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 …

Probiotics exhibit many health benefits and a great potential for broad applications in
pharmaceutical fields, such as prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal tract diseases …

Oral administration of live probiotics along with prebiotics has been suggested with
numerous beneficial effects for several conditions including certain infectious disorders …

Several studies have demonstrated differences among strains of probiotic bacteria with
regard to their survival in acid environment. Probiotics must survive in gastric acids to reach …