Foods that have health benefits beyond their nutritional content (functional foods), and particularly foods containing probiotics, are products that are growing in popularity. Probiotics are available as dietary supplements or they may be incorporated directly into foods. They are live microorganisms that when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit to the host (FAO 2006); they are added to a variety of foods. Recently, attention has been directed to the use of fermented sausages as a foos carrier because these products could contain high numbers of viable lactic acid bacteria.to use probiotics as starter cultures for fermented sausages, in addition to the demonstrated probiotic features (FAO 2006), other properties are demanded.