About the Book: Functional Dairy Food Concepts and Applications
Though in our country consumption of certain fermented milk products, known for
their therapeutic qualities is an age old practice, yet in last few years there
has been a paradigm shift in dairy and food processing sector towards
"functional foods". In contrast to many other markets, the major format for
functional ingredient has been probiotic as food supplements, rather than the
most popular formats-spoonable and drinkable dairy foods. Probiotic supplements
for example, account for 49 per cent of sales with foods and beverages at only
four per cent. Globally, food and beverages account for 56 per cent of