Author(s):
Simões, Lívia Souza ; Madalena, Daniel A. ; Pinheiro, Ana Cristina ; Teixeira, J. A. ; Vicente, A. A. ; Ramos, Óscar L.
Date: 2017
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/46342
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBPD%2F80766%2F2011/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147337/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/126270/PT
;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/126270/PT;
Subject(s): Encapsulation; Micro/nanosystems; Biomaterials; Bioactive compounds; Bioavailability; Food products; Science & Technology
Description
Micro- and nanoencapsulation is an emerging technology in the food field that potentially allows the improvement of food quality and human health. Bio-based delivery systems of bioactive compounds have a wide variety of morphologies that influence their stability and functional performance. The incorporation of bioactive compounds in food products using micro- and nano-delivery systems may offer extra health benefits, beyond basic nutrition, once their encapsulation may provide protection against undesired environmental conditions (e.g. heat, light and oxygen) along the food chain (including processing and storage), thus improving their bioavailability, while enabling their controlled release and target delivery. This review provides an overview of the bio-based materials currently used for encapsulation of bioactive compounds intended for food applications, as well as the main production techniques employed in the development of micro- and nanosystems. The behavior of such systems and of bioactive compounds entrapped into, throughout in vitro gastrointestinal systems, is also tracked in a critical manner. Comparisons between various in vitro digestion systems (including the main advantages and disadvantages) currently in use, as well as correlations established between the behavior of such systems and studies performed in vivo will be, for the first time, addressed in this review. Finally, examples of bioactive micro- and nanosystems added to food simulants or to real food matrices are provided, together with a revision of the main challenges for their safe commercialization, the regulatory issues involved and the main legislation aspects.
Lívia de Souza Simões gratefully acknowledges her grant to CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brasil) from Brazil. Oscar L. Ramos and Ana C. Pinheiro gratefully acknowledge their Post-Doctoral grants (SFRH/BPD/80766/2011 and SFRH/BPD/101181/2014,respectively)to Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal). This study was supported by FCT under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte.This study was also supported by FCT under the scope of the Project RECI/BBB-EBI/0179/2012 (FCOMP-01-0124FEDER-027462).
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