“…Previous studies on GOS production from whey have been conducted on (protein‐containing) rehydrated powder of whey (Fischer & Kleinschmidt, ; Jovanovic‐Malinovska, Fernandes, Winkelhausen, & Fonseca, ; Klein et al, ; Lisboa et al, ; T. S. Song et al, ) and on (protein‐free) rehydrated powder of whey UF‐permeate (Foda & Lopez‐Leiva, ; López Leiva & Guzman, ; Rustom, Foda, & López‐Leiva, ; Pocedičová, Čurda, Mišún, Dryáková, & Diblíková, ) using various processing technologies including stirred tank reactors (STR), packed bed reactors, and inert and catalytic membrane reactors. These studies have used either fungal [derived from Aspergillus sp .…”