Microbiological Considerations for Milk Products

Renewed interest of consumers towards healthful food has projected probiotic supplemented food as a functional food in the current era of self-care and complementary medicine. Cultured milk products have been extensively used as a vehicle for incorporation of probiotics to enhance its prophylactic properties resulting in diverse probiotic supplemented foods. Consumers are purchasing probiotic foods based upon label information but they are not confident regarding its health claims. Most of the probiotic supplemented food available in the global market could not meet the desired level of viable population of probiotics.