Designing biopolymer microgels to encapsulate, protect and deliver bioactive components: Physicochemical aspects.
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The major constituents and fabrication methods that can be used to prepare microgels are reviewed, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, and how these parameters can be manipulated to control the physicochemical properties and functional attributes of microgel suspensions are described.About:
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Egg-box model-based gelation of alginate and pectin: A review
TL;DR: The intrinsic and extrinsic factors that can influence the gelation of alginate and pectin were summarized and the similarity and difference in their gelation mechanism was summarized.
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Design principles of food gels
Yiping Cao,Raffaele Mezzenga +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that food gels may offer advantages over their synthetic counterparts owing to their source renewability, low cost, biocompatibility and biodegradability.
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Advances in nanoparticle and microparticle delivery systems for increasing the dispersibility, stability, and bioactivity of phytochemicals.
TL;DR: This review evaluates recent advances in the development of phytochemical oral delivery systems, including microemulsions, nanoemulsion, emulsion, solid lipid nanoparticles, liposomes, and biopolymer microgels.
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Enhanced delivery of lipophilic bioactives using emulsions: a review of major factors affecting vitamin, nutraceutical, and lipid bioaccessibility.
TL;DR: Recent progress in understanding the impact of emulsion properties on the bioaccessibility of lipophilic bioactive agents is reviewed, including oil phase composition, aqueousphase composition, droplet size, emulsifier type, lipid physical state, and droplet aggregation state.
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Encapsulation and delivery of bioactive compounds using spray and freeze-drying techniques: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, various bioactive components exist in plants, fruits, and vegetable origins that have many beneficial health effects (mainly antioxidant) but they suffer from low-stability.
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