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Effect of prebiotics encapsulated with probiotics on encapsulation efficiency, microbead size, and survivability: a review

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A sufficient amount of probiotics is essential to be consumed to improve the host’s health. In order to protect probiotics against the harsh gastrointestinal environment, probiotics were subjected to microencapsulation prior to product manufacturing or consumption. However, maintaining the viability of encapsulated probiotics remains a challenge. Hence, prebiotics were often incorporated with encapsulated probiotics with the intention to serve as a nutrient source or protectants for probiotics. In this paper, the effect of incorporating prebiotics to encapsulated probiotics on microencapsulation efficiency, microbeads size, and survivability under gastrointestinal conditions and storage were reviewed extensively. Besides, we also introduced potential emerging prebiotics that had been incorporated into encapsulated probiotics and compared them against common established prebiotics. Furthermore, this article also highlights the possible factors that may cause low viable cell count and small microbead size of encapsulated probiotics after the addition of prebiotics. Lastly, the importance of microencapsulating probiotics with synergistic prebiotics were emphasized in this review.

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How, Y., Pui, L. Effect of prebiotics encapsulated with probiotics on encapsulation efficiency, microbead size, and survivability: a review. Food Measure 15, 4899–4916 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-021-01059-6

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