Encapsulation Technologies and Delivery Systems for Food Ingredient and Nutraceuticals

Key Features: provides a comprehensive guide to current and emerging techniques in encapsulation technologies and delivery systems; chapters in part one provide an overview of key requirements for food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems, while part two discusses processing technologies for encapsulation and delivery systems; later sections investigate physicochemical approaches to the production of encapsulation and delivery systems and review characterization and applications of delivery systems.

Contents: Part 1 Requirements for food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems: Requirements for food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems; Challenges in developing delivery systems for food additives, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements; Interaction of food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems with the human gastrointestinal tract. Part 2 Processing technology approaches to produce encapsulation and delivery systems: Spray drying, freeze drying and related processes for food ingredient and nutraceutical encapsulation; Spray cooling and spray chilling for food ingredient and nutraceutical encapsulation; Coextrusion for food ingredients and nutraceutical encapsulation: Principles and technology; Fluid bed microencapsulation and other coating methods for food ingredient and nutraceutical bioactive compounds; Microencapsulation methods based on biopolymer phase separation and gelation phenomena in aqueous media. Part 3 Physicochemical approaches to produce encapsulation and delivery systems: Micelles and microemulsions as food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems; Biopolymeric amphiphiles as food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems; Liposomes as food ingredients and nutraceutical delivery systems; Colloidal emulsions and particles as micronutrient and nutraceutical delivery systems; Structured oils and fats (organogels) as food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems; Hydrogel particles and other novel protein-based methods for food ingredient and nutraceutical delivery systems. Part 4 Characterization and applications of delivery systems: An industry perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of different flavour delivery systems; An industry perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of different fish oil delivery systems; An industry perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of iron micronutrient delivery systems; Properties and applications of different probiotic delivery systems.