Abstract
The consumption of foods containing probiotic cultures has greatly increased over the past years as a result of their benefits to human
health. Along with other factors, the choice of the packaging material plays an important role in maintaining viable counts of these
microorganisms at sufficiently high levels to assure their therapeutic activity throughout shelf-life. The aim of this article is to provide
an overview of the main issues related to the importance of the packaging system and/or materials on the stability of probiotic dairy
foods.
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Keywords: Packaging system; Probiotic dairy foods
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