“…There is increasing evidence for the health benefits of probiotics, including enhancement of the immune response (Khalesi et al, 2018), a protective role against allergy (Sharma and Im, 2018;Szari and Quinn, 2019), removal of chemical contaminants and ability to reduce the toxicity of contaminants (Feng et al, 2018;Wochner et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019), improving intestinal health by modulating the number and diversity of beneficial gut microbiota, and reducing symptoms associated with various gastrointestinal disorders (Ferrario et al, 2014;Ford et al, 2014;Feng et al, 2018;Irwin et al, 2018;Vasquez et al, 2019), hepatoprotective effects (Meng et al, 2018), cardiovascular disease prevention by improving blood cholesterol levels and blood lipid profile, reducing blood pressure and hypertension (Guo et al, 2011;Khalesi et al, 2014;Sun and Buys, 2015;Vasquez et al, 2019), improving blood glucose tolerance and diabetes control (Sun and Buys, 2016;Plows et al, 2019), improved mental health (Inserra et al, 2018;Bruce-Keller et al, 2018;Dutta et al, 2019), and cancer prevention (Nazir et al, 2018;Scott et al, 2018;Ma et al, 2019). However, in order to improve the probability of these beneficial effects, probiotic candidate strains should be submitted to selection assays, which can be crucial to promulgate the therapeutic effect in the host.…”