Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, Lycovrissi, 14123 Attica, Greece.
Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece.
Int J Mol Sci. 2018 Jan 4;19(1):150. doi: 10.3390/ijms19010150.
Nowadays, the consumption of food products containing probiotics, has increased worldwide due to concerns regarding healthy diet and wellbeing. This trend has received a lot of attention from the food industries, aiming to produce novel probiotic foods, and from researchers, to improve the existing methodologies for probiotic delivery or to develop and investigate new possible applications. In this sense, edible films and coatings are being studied as probiotic carriers with many applications. There is a wide variety of materials with film-forming ability, possessing different characteristics and subsequently affecting the final product. This manuscript aims to provide significant information regarding probiotics and active/bioactive packaging, to review applications of probiotic edible films and coatings, and to discuss certain limitations of their use as well as the current legislation and future trends.
如今，由于人们关注健康饮食和健康，含有益生菌的食品越来越受到全世界的欢迎。这种趋势引起了食品行业的关注，他们希望生产新型益生菌食品，也引起了研究人员的关注，他们希望改进益生菌传递的现有方法，或开发和研究新的可能应用。从这个意义上说，可食用薄膜和涂层作为益生菌载体正在被研究，它们有许多应用。有很多具有成膜能力的材料，具有不同的特性，从而影响最终产品。本文旨在提供有关益生菌和活性/生物活性包装的重要信息，综述益生菌可食用薄膜和涂层的应用，并讨论其作为载体使用的某些限制以及当前的法规和未来的趋势。
