Hippocrates said that “Let food be the medicine and
medicine be the food is certainly the tenet of today”.1
The most common problem prevailing in the field of
medicine is the development of resistance to a range of
antibiotics by the important pathogens. The
promiscuous and heavy use of antibiotics has led to
the emergence of multi-resistant strains of bacteria. This
unfortunate development has led scientists to shift the
paradigm of treatment from specific bacteria elimination
to altering bacterial ecology by use of probiotic2.Nobel
laureate Élie Metchnikoff, postulated in 1907 that yogurtconsuming
Bulgarian peasants lived longer lives
because of this custom.