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Table. 4.

Table. 4. Table 4

Number of strains in 21 top-selling probiotic products studied in this study.

Sample No.	Number of total strains claimed by the product^a	Number of strains belonged to Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Lactococcus

		Claimed by the product^b	Isolated from the product^c
S1	6	5	4
S2	25	22	6
S3	6	4	3
S4	10	9	3
S5	4	3	1
S6	2	2	2
S7	9	8	4
S8	12	10	6
S9	1	1	1
S10	1	1	1
S11	2	2	2
S12	1	1	1
S13	1	1	1
S14	12	10	7
S15	1	1	1
S16	2	2	2
S17	19	16	10
S18	18	16	7
S19	7	6	3
S20	11	9	3
S21	2	2	2
Total	152	131	70

^aTotal number of strains claimed on the product belonged to the genus Bifidobacterium, Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lacticaseibacillus, Lactiplantibacillus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Latilactobacillus, Levilactobacillus, Ligilactobacillus, Limosilactobacillus, and Streptococcus; ^bNumber of strains belonged to the genus Bifidobacterium Lacticaseibacillus, Lactiplantibacillus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Latilactobacillus, Levilactobacillus, Ligilactobacillus, Limosilactobacillus species claimed on the label of the product; ^cNumber of isolates belonged to the genus Bifidobacterium, Lacticaseibacillus, Lactiplantibacillus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Latilactobacillus, Levilactobacillus, Ligilactobacillus, Limosilactobacillus from each product.

J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2023;33:500~510 https://doi.org/10.4014/jmb.2210.10041