Abstract

In recent years, with increasing health problems and diseases all over the world, consumer demand for functional foods has increased. By using milk as a raw material in the production of probiotic products, probiotic yoghurt, probiotic kefir, probiotic cheese, probiotic ice cream, probiotic buttermilk, probiotic frozen milk desserts and drinks that contain probiotic whey have been produced. In this way, these products are expected not only to meet the body's essential nutrient requirements but also provide beneficial effects on human physiology and metabolic functions, and as well as reducing the risk of disease.Due to the above mentioned beneficial effects in this study, lyophilized Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis (BB-12) as probiotic and fructooligosaccharide as prebiotic were added to a goat milk based follow-up formula and the moisture content, pH value and the viability of the B. animalis subsp. lactis during storage of 3, 15 and 30 days at room temperature were determined. In the 30-day study, moisture was 2.79% on the first day and 2.78% on the last day. The pH value of the product was 6.97 on the first day; 6.86 on the last day and showed no significant difference. In the viability study, B. animalis subsp. lactis was 7.53 log cfu/g on the first day and 7.42 log cfu/g on the last day and showed no significant difference. The counts were found to be above the recommended addition level (6 log cfu/g) to provide health benefits. In addition, the moisture contents and pH values did not show a significant difference.

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