“…Those films and coatings may be used as packaging aids, acting as well as protectant matrices to the probiotics, and presenting bioactive properties, contributing to consumers' health. Moreover, they may extend food microbial stability due to the competitive effects of probiotics against spoilage microorganisms (Espitia, Batista, Azeredo, & Otoni, 2016), as already demonstrated in inhibition zone tests (Karimi, Alizadeh, Almasi, & Hanifian, 2020) or in stability tests with fish (López de Lacey, López-Caballero, Gómez-Estaca, Gómez-Guillén, & Montero, 2012;Mozaffarzogh, Misaghi, Shahbazi, & Kamkar, 2020). The presence of prebiotics, which are nondigestible ingredients that selectively stimulate growth and/or activity of probiotics, such as fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin, has been reported to enhance the viability of the probiotic bacteria in food products (Okuro, Thomazini, Balieiro, Liberal, & Fávaro-Trindade, 2013), including edible films (Pereira et al, 2019).…”