However, studies with different species of the Lactobacillus genus verified that FOS favorably contributed to the continuous increase of viable probiotic cells during refrigerated storage of curd containing Lactobacillus acidophilus (Rodrigues et al., 2011), and fermented soy milk containing L. acidophilus, Lactobacillus plantarum, and Lactobacillus rhamnosus (Mishra & Mishra, 2013).