A review on millet based probiotic beverages

Abstract

Probiotics are the live microorganisms which beneficially affect the host by improving its intestinal microbial balance. Probiotic products available in market are generally milk and yoghurt based, but nowadays due to increase in peoples veganism or vegetarianism throughout the world, demand for non-dairy probiotic beverage and also the people’s health problems like lactose intolerance and blood cholesterol related diseases it is need to develop non-dairy probiotic beverages by using different substrates other than milk. So for this reason there is need to search the alternative raw material for probiotic microorganisms. Considering the nutritional value and other facts about cereals and millets, these can be useful raw material for probiotics. This review aims at highlighting the research done on non-dairy probiotic beverage particularly from cereals and millets and also the health benefits of the probiotics on human health.