• Mrs. R. Bhuvaneswari
• Mrs.K.Rani

Probiotics can be considered as potential functional foods, as they offer health benefits much more than the traditional nutritional foods. The requirement for probiotic functional foods is rapidly and progressively on the rise because of increased awareness of the public regarding the impact of food on health. Probiotics are now emerging as a promising key category of food supplement around the globe. The consumption of probiotic foods is a new therapeutic strategy in preventing or delaying the onset of diseases. A functional food is a typical food that has specific nutrients added to it, like vitamins or minerals, fibre, or probiotics or prebiotics. The future of functional foods is likely to be the combination of numerous ingredients to achieve a specific set of goals, rather than efforts to uncover the potential benefits of a single food source. Hence it is important to promote healthy life styles leading to quality of life for individuals and societies.

Functional foods, probiotics, health, diet, supplement

"PROBIOTIC AS FUNCTIONAL FOOD: A NEW EMERGING TREND IN PROMOTING HEALTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.278-280, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAD06046.pdf

"PROBIOTIC AS FUNCTIONAL FOOD: A NEW EMERGING TREND IN PROMOTING HEALTH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp278-280, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAD06046.pdf