Table 1. Probiotic strains used in the study with the indication of their optimal media and growth conditions adopted.

Strains	Optimal Media (OM) and growth conditions
Bifidobacteria
B. animalis DSM10140	MRS broth (Oxoid, Milan, Italy), added with cysteine 0.05% (w v−1) (Sigma-Aldrich, Milan, Italy) incubated at 37 °C for 24–48 h under anaerobic conditions
B. subtilis DSM20096
B. infantis DSM20088
B. longum DSM20219
B. breve DSM20213
Lactobacilli
L. plantarum DSM2601	MRS broth (Oxoid, Milan, Italy) incubated at 30 °C for 24–48 h under anaerobic conditions
L. casei DSM20011
L.delbrueckii DSM20081
L. paracasei DSM20207
L. reuteri DSM20016
Yeasts
Kluyveromyces lactis ATCC8585	Yeast extract peptone dextrose (YPD; Oxoid, Milan, Italy) incubated at 25 °C for 48 h
S. cerevisiae boulardii ATCCMYA-796
S. cerevisiae W21*
S. cerevisiae W40*
S. cerevisiae W45*

Note:

^*Autochthonous yeasts isolated from wine (Petruzzi et al., 2014).