Development of Microencapsulation Delivery System for Long-Term Preservation of Probiotics as Biotherapeutics Agent

Table 9

Advantage and disadvantages of fluidized bed drying.

Advantages	Disadvantages
The advantages of this process are total control over the temperature, lower comparable cost	Disadvantage being relatively longer duration (up to 2 hours) [195]. Before this drying, probiotic culture is encapsulated first in supporting material such as skimmed milk [196], potato starch [197], calcium alginate [198], or casein [199]