Microencapsulation And Microspheres For Food Applications

Microencapsulation and Microspheres for Food Applications is a solid reflection on the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in this highly expanding field. This reference examines the various types of microspheres and microcapsules essential to those who need to develop stable and impermeable products at high acidic conditions. It’s also important for the novel design of slow releasing active compound capsules. Each chapter provides an in-depth account of controlled release technologies, evidence based abstracts, descriptions of chemical and physical principals, and key relevant facts relating to food applications. Written in an accessible manner, the book is a must have resource for scientists, researchers, and engineers. Discusses the most current encapsulation technology applied in the food industry, including radiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and dynamic NMR microscopy Presents the use of microsphere immunoassay for mycotoxins detection Covers a broad range of applications of microcapsules and microspheres, including food shelf-life, pesticides for crop protection, and nanoencapsulated bacteriophage for food safety

Today, nano- and microencapsulation are increasingly beingutilized in the pharmaceutical, textile, agricultural and foodindustries. Microencapsulation is a process in which tiny particlesor droplets of a food are surrounded by a coating to give smallcapsules. These capsules can be imagined as tiny uniform spheres,in which the particles at the core are protected from outsideelements by the protective coating. For example, vitamins can beencapsulated to protect them from the deterioration they wouldundergo if they were exposed to oxygen. This book highlights the principles, applications, toxicity andregulation of nano- and microencapsulated foods. Section I describes the theories and concepts of nano- andmicroencapsulation for foods adapted from pharmaceutical areas,rationales and new strategies of encapsulation, and protection andcontrolled release of food ingredients. Section II looks closely at the nano- and microencapsulation offood ingredients, such as vitamins, minerals, phytochemical, lipid,probiotics and flavors. This section provides a variety ofreferences for functional food ingredients with varioustechnologies of nano particles and microencapsulation. This sectionwill be helpful to food processors and will deal with foodingredients for making newly developed functional foodproducts. Section III covers the application of encapsulated ingredientsto various foods, such as milk and dairy products, beverages,bakery and confectionery products, and related food packagingmaterials. Section IV touches on other related issues in nano- andmicroencapsulation, such as bioavailability, bioactivity, potentialtoxicity and regulation.

Microencapsulation in the Food Industry: A Practical Implementation Guide, Second Edition continues to focus on the development of new microencapsulation techniques for researchers and scientists in the field. This practical reference combines the knowledge of new and novel processing techniques, materials and selection, regulatory aspects and testing and evaluation of materials. It provides application specific uses of microencapsulation as it applies to the food and nutraceutical industries. This reference offers unique solutions to some very specific product needs in the field of encapsulation. This second edition highlights changes in the industry as a result of a field that has traversed from the micro scale level to nano-scaled encapsulation and includes two new chapters, one on regulatory, quality, process scale-up, packaging, and economics and the other on testing and quality control. Includes new characterization methodologies to understand chemical and physical properties for functionality of the final microencapsulated material Presents the latest research and developments in the area of nano-scale encapsulation and intelligent packaging Provides new testing tools to assess products containing microencapsulated actives

Microencapsulation has become a promising technology for new applications in fields like drug delivery, biosensing, biomaterials, catalysis, intelligent microstructures and microsystems, as well as in the field of consumer goods. This book is written by authors from academia and industry and aims to present industrial adoption of microcapsules as an innovative solution for problems concerning environmentally-friendly production methods, health protection, and increase of citizen daily life standard and decrease of its costs.

Microencapsulations may be found in a number of fields like medicine, drug delivery, biosensing, agriculture, catalysis, intelligent microstructures and in many consumer goods. This new edition of Microencapsulation revises chapters to address the newest innovations in fields and adds three new chapters on the uses of microencapsulations in medicine, agriculture, and consumer products.

CONTENTS Microencapsulation: what it is and its purpose; Microcapsule characterisation: release kinetics/mechanism; Legal aspects; Single core encapsulation -filmcoating; liposomes in the food industry and centrifugal coextrusion encapsulation; Multiple core encapsulation- encapsulation materials; the spray drying of food ingredients; modified spray congealing/spray drying of aqueous dispersions; microencapsulation and alginate; extrusion technology and microencapsulation.

Application of Nano/Microencapsulated Ingredients in Food Products, a volume in the Nanoencapsulation in the Food Industry series, presents applications of nano/micro-encapsulated ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, flavors, colorants, enzymes, probiotics antioxidants and many other bioactive components in different groups of food products. Each chapter explores nano/microencapsulated ingredients in food products, including beverages, cereal flours and bakery products, meat, oils and fats, salt, spices and seasonings, functional supplements, and in chewing gum. In addition, the book explores active food packaging and edible coatings with nano/microencapsulated ingredients. Authored by a team of global experts in the fields of nano and microencapsulation of food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical ingredients, this title is of great value to those engaged in the various fields of nanoencapsulation. Clarifies which nanoencapsulated ingredients can be applied for different food products Thoroughly explores the influence of nanoencapsulated ingredients on the qualitative properties of different food products

This book is intended to provide an overview and review of the latest developments in microencapsulation processes and technologies for various fields of applications. The general theme and purpose are to provide the reader with a current and general overview of the existing microencapsulation systems and to emphasize various methods of preparation, characterization, evaluation, and potential applications in various fields such as medicine, food, agricultural, and composites. The book targets readers, including researchers in materials science processing and/or formulation and microencapsulation science, engineers in the area of microcapsule development, and students in colleges and universities.