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Open access
Aug 2026
Enhancing Probiotic Performance in Food Matrices: From Strain Selection to Bioengineering
ABSTRACT Probiotics are central to functional food innovation, but their application is limited by viability loss during processing, storage, and gastrointestinal (GI) transit. A key insight is that viability and functionality are distinct attributes; maintaining high cell counts does not guarantee that probiotics reta...
Sidney Rodrigues de Jesus Silva, R. Rodrigues, R. Freitas et al.
· Journal of Food Science · 1 citation