Diksha Bhardwaj

Spray Drying of Probiotic Foods: A Critical Review of Microbial Viability Optimisation across Strain, Formulation, Process and Storage

Diksha Bhardwaj, Deepak Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Shefali Sirame, Yogesh Khetra & Deep Narayan Yadav · Journal of Advances in Microbiology · 2026

Spray drying is attractive for manufacturing probiotic food ingredients because it is continuous, scalable and generally less costly than freeze drying, yet the combined thermal, dehydration, oxidative and mechanical stresses can sharply reduce cultivable cell numbers and comprom...