Probiotics as functional food ingredients for augmenting human health

Innovation in Healthy and Functional Foods

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 387-417

  Grover, Sunita ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^b   Srivastava, A K ^a   Batish, Virender K ^a  

^a NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Seth Jai Parkash Mukand Lal Institute of Engineering and Technology   (India)

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