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FOOD AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages 1422-1428Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-016-1724-z
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Spray cooling; Spray congealing; Viability; Sensorial acceptance; Nutritional facts
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The use of probiotic microorganisms has been limited by the difficulty of maintaining their viability during processing and throughout the product's shelf life. This study evaluated the viability of microencapsulating Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA) and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis (BL) using the spray chilling technique to add them to savory cereal bars. The results showed that spray chilling generated a powder that was composed of smooth and continuous spheres with low moisture content and low water activity. The microencapsulated microorganisms exhibited a storage viability at least of 90 days as microparticles and in savory cereal bars, and their counts were superior to those resulting from other methods of adding activated and lyophilized probiotics to savory cereal bars. Thus, microparticles prepared by spray chilling are good vehicles for incorporating probiotics into cereal bars and have the potential to release the probiotics in the consumers' intestines by means of fat digestion. Savory cereal bars that did and did not contain probiotics exhibited no differences in sensorial acceptance or commercial potential.
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