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The present study investigates the synbiotic effect of probiotic bacteria and hummus as a prebiotic on blood lipids in Sprague-Dawley rats. A developed probiotic hummus that contained Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium lactis Bb-12 was added to a previously heated hummus at 75ºC/5 min., followed by an anaerobic incubation at 37ºC/8 h. The experimental diets included cholesterol diet, probiotic+ cholesterol diet, hummus+ cholesterol diet and probiotic hummus+ cholesterol diet. Animals were divided randomly, according to their weights, into four groups (8 rats/group). Each group of the rats was fed one of the four diets for 8 weeks. Inclusion of probiotics to the cholesterol diet showed hypocholesterolemic effect, since it significantly (p< 0.05) decreased TC and LDL-C by 14.5%(from 73.38 to 62.75) and 28.5%(from 19.70P Pto 14.08), respectively, as compared with the control group. No …