The trend towards functional foods and healthy diets encourages researchers to produce new probiotic food products with improved probiotic delivery methods. Recently, edible films have been applied as carriers for probiotics, improving their survival in the foods and the gastrointestinal tract. This article is structured as follows: a description of edible films as probiotic carriers is followed by an introduction of the materials used as edible films in three main chapters (1) hydrocolloids (polysaccharides and proteins), (2) lipids and (3) composites. Then, probiotic viability in all mentioned edible films is discussed in detail and the impact of prebiotic incorporation is mentioned. Microbial, physicochemical, and sensory properties of edible film containing probiotics in food matrices are reviewed. Finally, the application of probiotic edible films in different food products is described.

功能食品和健康饮食的趋势鼓励研究人员生产具有改进的益生菌递送方法的新型益生菌食品。最近，可食用薄膜已被用作益生菌的载体，从而改善了它们在食品和胃肠道中的存活率。本文的结构如下：在描述作为益生菌载体的可食用薄膜之后，在以下三个主要章节中介绍了用作可食用薄膜的材料：（1）亲水胶体（多糖和蛋白质），（2）脂质和（3）复合材料。然后，详细讨论了所有提及的可食用薄膜中的益生菌活力，并提及了益生元掺入的影响。对食品基质中含有益生菌的可食用薄膜的微生物，理化和感官特性进行了综述。最后，