Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Fruits: A Review on Methods for Evaluation of Probiotic Potential

This Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are known to have many health-promoting properties, among them probiotic activity. Fruits and their by-products are colonized with certain types of these microorganisms on their surfaces and contain them as part of their composition. This review provides information about methods of isolation, characterization, and identification of LAB from fruits and their by-products, including methods of evaluating the probiotic potential of these microorganisms and development of probiotic products. The strategies reported in this review are useful to help researchers in their choice of methods, aimed at the future development of potentially probiotic fruit products with LAB isolates from fruits that address the needs of specific groups in the population that cannot obtain probiotics from dairy products.