“…Probiotics intended to be added to dairy products have been successfully encapsulated in chitosan-based materials (e.g., alginate-chitosan and chitosan/dextran sulfate), oligosaccharides, polyols (sugar and alcohol fibers), gelatin, inulin and xanthan gum, alginate-based materials (e.g., sodium alginate, calcium alginate, alginate-CaCO 3 , alginate and human-like collagen, and gelatin microspheres with alginate), gum Arabic, cellulose derivatives, maltodextrin, vegetable proteins, pectin hydrogel beads, carrageenan, and milk protein-based materials (e.g., whey protein isolates, milk protein matrices with rennet, sodium caseinate gelled with transglutaminase) using several encapsulation methods, such as extrusion, emulsion, and freeze and spray drying (Huq et al, 2013;Rashidinejad et al, 2020). Some of the recent and most widely used techniques used for the microencapsulation of probiotics with prebiotics include high-temperature processes (spray drying) and low-temperature processes (freeze-drying, spray chilling, extrusion, emulsification, electro-hydrodynamic atomization, gelation, and coacervation) (Rashidinejad et al, 2020). The use of embedding techniques for the microencapsulation of probiotics using several types of microgels/microcapsules (core-shell, biopolymercomplex, gastric resistant or nutrient-doped microgels) of 1 to 1000 µm range prepared from different material (for instance, pectin, carrageenan, alginate, chitosan, or zein) has been proven effective in probiotic survival and long-term storage with maximum viability (Yao et al, 2020).…”