Journal
ANTIOXIDANTS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antiox10091337
Keywords
anthocyanins; heat stability; degradation kinetics; stabilization techniques
Funding
- Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania & Hasso Plattner Foundation [LBUS-IRG-2021-07]
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Anthocyanins are valuable biocompounds that are being increasingly extracted globally, but their functional applications are limited by environmental stability. Research on the thermal stability of anthocyanins has shown that crude extracts are more thermally stable than purified extracts, and interactions with nutrients can affect their behavior during thermal processing. Stabilization of anthocyanins through linkages to other molecules has shown promise for developing stable functional products in the future.
Anthocyanins are colored valuable biocompounds, of which extraction increases globally, although functional applications are restrained by their limited environmental stability. Temperature is a critical parameter of food industrial processing that impacts on the food matrix, particularly affecting heat-sensitive compounds such as anthocyanins. Due to the notable scientific progress in the field of thermal stability of anthocyanins, an analytical and synthetic integration of published data is required. This review focuses on the molecular mechanisms and the kinetic parameters of anthocyanin degradation during heating, both in extracts and real food matrices. Several kinetic models (Arrhenius, Eyring, Ball) of anthocyanin degradation were studied. Crude extracts deliver more thermally stable anthocyanins than purified ones. A different anthocyanin behavior pattern within real food products subjected to thermal processing has been observed due to interactions with some nutrients (proteins, polysaccharides). The most recent studies on the stabilization of anthocyanins by linkages to other molecules using classical and innovative methods are summarized. Ensuring appropriate thermal conditions for processing anthocyanin-rich food will allow a rational design for the future development of stable functional products, which retain these bioactive molecules and their functionalities to a great extent.
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