Probiotics are conventionally added to dairy products like yogurt, dahi and other fermented dairy foods (Laroia and Martin 1991; Penna et al. 2007; Vijayendra and Gupta 2013a, b) making them as functional foods. Commercially probiotics are being sold throughout the world mainly in the form of fermented foods and fermented dairy products, which play a predominant role as carriers of probiotics (Heller 2001).