“…Worldwide, growing awareness of the physiological benefits of dietary fiber, among consumers, coupled with the ready availability of commercial dietary fiber preparations, led to the successful development of various dietary fiber fortified dairy products such as yoghurt (Fernandez-Garcia and McGregor 1997;Fernandez-Gracia et al 1998;Staffolo et al 2004;Garcia-Perez et al 2005;Aportela-Palacios et al 2005; Kip et al 2006;Guggisberg et al 2009), cheese (Buriti et al 2007Cardarelli et al 2008), imitation cheese (Hennelly et al 2006), ice cream (Singh et al 2005;, probiotic ice-cream (Akalin and Erisir 2008), yog-ice cream (El-Nagar et al 2002;Ahmadi et al 2012), dairy dessert (Tarrega and Costell 2006), lactic beverage (de-Castro et al 2009;Villegas and Costell 2007). In India, some traditional milk-based confections like gajar-pak (milk-carrot based), giya-ka-halwa (milk-bottle gourd based), doda-burfi (milkwheat based), kaju-burfi (milk-cashew nut based); cerealsbased milk desserts like kheer and dalia (Patel and Arora 2005) and milk-cereal based beverages like raabadi (Pal 2008;Modha and Pal 2011) contain significant quantities of dietary fiber. Further, attempts were made to fortify other commonly consumed Indian milk products such as dahi, lassi, kheer, paneer (Kantha and Kanawjia 2007), whey based lassi-like beverage (Nair and Thompkinson 2008) with different commercial dietary fiber preparations to confer on them the physiological benefits of dietary fiber.…”