Abstract Recent research in the area of importance of microbes has revealed the immense industrial potential of exopolysaccharides and their derivative oligosaccharides
from lactic acid bacteria. However, due to lack of adequate
technological knowledge, the exopolysaccharides have remained largely under exploited. In the present review, the enormous potentials of different types of exopolysaccharides
from lactic acid bacteria are described. This also
summarizes the recent advances in the applications of
exopolysaccharides, certain problems associated with their
commercial production and the remedies.
Keywords Lactic acid bacteria Exopolysaccharides