The past two decades have witnessed a global surge in the application of probiotics as
functional ingredients in food, animal feed, and pharmaceutical products. Among food …

Probiotic foods are reported to provide several health benefits, as they help in maintaining a
good balance and composition of intestinal flora, and increase the resistance against …

Probiotic bacteria have become increasingly popular during the last two decades as a result
of the continuously expanding scientific evidence pointing to their beneficial effects on …

The development of a suitable technology for the production of probiotics is a key research
for industrial production, which should take into account the viability and the stability of the …

In the recent past, there has been a rising interest in producing functional foods containing
encapsulated probiotic bacteria. According to their perceived health benefits, probiotics …

In the industrialized world, functional foods have become a part of an everyday diet and are
demonstrated to offer potential health benefits beyond the widely accepted nutritional …

According to the German definition, probiotics are defined viable microorganisms, sufficient
amounts of which reach the intestine in an active state and thus exert positive health effects …

Africa has an age old history of production of traditional fermented foods and is perhaps the
continent with the richest variety of lactic acid fermented foods. These foods have a large …

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria present in various dietary components and many of these
colonize in the human and animal intestine. In the gut probiotics help the host by assisting in …

Functional foods as a marketing term was initiated in Japan in the late 1980s and is used to
describe foods fortified with ingredients capable of producing health benefits. This concept is …