Lactobacillus
acidophilus is widely used as an adjunct culture in yogurt
manufacture in the United States [12] and these L. acidophilus
cells are in the non micro-encapsulated form. It
is not clear if the use of micro-encapsulated L. acidophilus
cells would result in a yogurt of a better quality compared
to non micro-encapsulated L. acidophilus. The objective
was to study the influence of micro-encapsulated
L. acidophilus on the characteristics of fat free plain yogurt.