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The article was published by Dayana Pereira de Andrade, PhD in Agricultural Microbiology at the Federal University of Lavras, in the International Journal of Food Science & Technology. In the paper the probiotic strains Lactobacillus brevis CCMA1284 and Lactobacillus plantarum CCMA0359 were microencapsulated by spray drying using different matrices – whey powder (W), whey powder with inulin (WI) and whey powder with maltodextrin (WM). Viability of the microencapsulated strains in acid and bile juices and during 90 days of storage (7 and 25 °C) was evaluated. The two strains exhibited high encapsulation efficiency (> 86%) by spray drying. The different matrices maintained L. plantarum viability above six log CFU/g at 7 °C for 90 days, whereas similar results for L. brevis were observed only for whey powder. In general, the use of whey powder and whey powder with maltodextrin as matrices was effective for L. plantarum viability. Finally, the author concludes that the spray drying technique was successfully adopted for the encapsulation of L. plantarum CCMA0359 and L. brevis CCMA1284 strains.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ijfs.14114
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