“…Depending on which kinds of monosaccharides are connected into the polysaccharide chains, polysaccharides take on a variety of forms (Yang, Prasad, & Jiang, 2016). Regarding the area of probiotic microencapsulation, characteristic properties of polysaccharides include: (a) ion‐induced gelation property that enables the polysaccharide to form cross‐linked hydrogel structure through the interaction with several specific ions, such as Ca 2+ interacts with alginate and pectin (Yeung, Üçok, Tiani, McClements, & Sela, 2016) and K + interacts with carrageenan (Dafe, Etemadi, Zarredar, & Mahdavinia, 2017); (b) structure‐reinforcing agent property that enables the polysaccharide not to be easily degraded by the action of enzymes and resistant to acidic environments, such as gellan gum (Moghaddas Kia, 2018; Nag, Han, & Singh, 2011); (c) enteric dissolution property that enables the polysaccharide to only dissolve in the intestinal environment, such as cellulose acetate propionate (Fávaro‐Trindade & Grosso, 2002; Hanafi, Nograles, Abdullah, Shamsudin, & Rosli, 2013); (d) electrostatic interaction property that enables the polysaccharide to combine with other polysaccharide or protein with opposite charge, such as chitosan combines with alginate (de Araújo Etchepare et al., 2016) or pectin (Sandoval‐Castilla, Lobato‐Calleros, García‐Galindo, Alvarez‐Ramírez, & Vernon‐Carter, 2010); (e) prebiotic property that enable the polysaccharide to be selectively utilized by host microorganisms conferring a health benefit, such as resistant starch (RS) (Etchepare et al., 2016; Zanjani, Ehsani, Tarzi, & Sharifan, 2018) and inulin (Ahmed & Rashid, 2019; Valero‐Cases & Frutos, 2015). However, with the increasing demand and new application areas for probiotic microencapsulation, these traditional polysaccharides can barely satisfy such challenges (Ramos, Cerqueira, Teixeira, & Vicente, 2018).…”