“…The specific characteristics of whey proteins such as solubility, ability to form emulsions, foams and gels, favourable nutritional profile and diverse functional properties, make them an ideal ingredient in formulating several food products (Ha & Zemel, 2003;Yadav et al, 2015;Smithers, 2015;Patel, 2015). Therefore, in recent years, whey has been widely used as an ingredient for healthy tailored dairy beverages, in most of the cases associated to fruits or other functional ingredients with prebiotic properties or fermented with probiotic bacteria (Pereira et al, 2015;Guimarães et al, 2018Guimarães et al, , 2019Amaral et al, 2018). However, most studies are focused on the characteristics and properties of dehydrated whey protein products with high protein content (i.e.…”