Survival of commercial probiotic strains in dark chocolate with high cocoa and phenols content during the storage and in a static in vitro digestion model

Journal of Functional Foods

Volumn 35, Issue , 2017, Pages 60-67

  Succi, Mariantonietta ^a   Tremonte, Patrizio ^a   Pannella, Gianfranco ^a   Tipaldi, Luca ^a   Cozzolino, Autilia ^a   Coppola, Raffaele ^a   Sorrentino, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark chocolate; Gastro intestinal survival; Phenols; Probiotic; Viability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019889542     PISSN: 17564646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2017.05.019     Document Type: Article

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