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 …

Highlights•Different studies related to improve probiotic formulations are
described.•Potential sources of probiotics have been discussed to help researchers.•Health …

Owing to their health benefits, probiotics and prebiotics are nowadays widely used in
yogurts and fermented milks, which are leader products of functional foods worldwide. The …

The term “probiotics”(meaning “for life” in Greek) refers products containing live
microorganisms, which increase the population of friendly intestinal bacteria upon ingestion …

Probiotics, like lactic acid bacteria, are non-pathogenic microbes that exert health benefits to
the host when administered in adequate quantity. Currently, research is being conducted on …

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 …

Highlights•Probioactives are bioactive compounds found in supplements or foods that are
directly linked to the presence and/or activity of probiotic bacteria.•Biofunctionality of …

Probiotics are live microorganisms that are able to confer health benefits on the host, in most
cases through their interaction with the local gastrointestinal environment. Traditionally, they …

Probiotics could represent an effective alternative to the use of synthetic substances in
nutrition and medicine. The data concerning the efficacy of probiotics are often contradictory …

Probiotics and associated health benefits emerged as an area of increasing interest in the
past few decades. Probiotics confer their beneficial health effects by different mechanisms of …