As probiotics are usually administrated orally, they must have the ability to survive passage through the stomach and small intestine. Therefore, resistance to the low pH of the gastric juice in the stomach and the bile salt in the small intestine is one of the important selection criteria for probiotic (Olejnik et al., 2005). In the present study, all the selected LAB isolates were able to survive simulated gastric juice at pH 2 after 3 h of incubation