Preparation, Characterization, and Application of the Delivery System for Food Products: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 January 2025 | Viewed by 88
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resistant starch; delivery systems; bioactive compounds; functional foods
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Interests: food science and nutrition; functional food; nutritional supplements; nano-delivery systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first volume of this Special Issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/QY182A1RS4) was a great success and gained the attention and love of many scholars. We would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their contributions and support. As this topic continues to gain the attention of scholars and play a pivotal role today, we believe now is the right time to launch volume II.
Gut microbiota imbalance is the pathological basis of many chronic diseases. Bioactive compounds extracted from plants (such as polyphenols) have received increasing attention due to their regulatory effect on the gut microbiota. In spite of this, they present particular limitations that must be overcome before their application in food systems. Poor stability under stressful environmental conditions and easy degradation during digestion are the main issues that make them difficult for food applications. One of the effective technologies to avoid these problems is loading into colon-targeted delivery systems, such as emulsions, complexes, gels, and others. Resistant starch has good stability and antidigestibility and has been shown to be a promising material for fabricating colon-targeted delivery systems to load and deliver bioactive compounds. Recent advances refer to new forms of resistant starch-based delivery systems that are currently under study. Understanding their physicochemical properties, formation mechanisms, protective effects on bioactive compounds, and in vitro and in vivo digestive behavior is valuable for their applications to foods.
Dr. Qing Guo
Dr. Shuai Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resistant starch
- delivery system
- bioactive compound
- controlled release
- stability
- digestion
- gut microbiota
- functional foods
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