Journal
FOOD HYDROCOLLOIDS
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 15-25Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2012.09.012
Keywords
Hydrogel microspheres; Biopolymer particles; Emulsions; Delivery systems; Density matching; Phase separation
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Funding
- United States Department of Agriculture, CREES, NRI Grants
- University of Massachusetts (CVIP)
- University of Massachusetts (Hatch)
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Filled hydrogel microspheres consisting of small oil droplets trapped within biopolymer matrices are useful for encapsulating and delivering lipophilic bioactive agents. The aim of this study was to improve the current method of microsphere fabrication by increasing lipid loading capacity and microsphere yields, reducing the number of processing steps involved in fabrication, and creating microspheres that resist gravitational separation during storage. Filled hydrogel microspheres were fabricated from a phase separated mixture of pectin, caseinate, and emulsified oil to form an oil-in-water-in-water (O/W-1/W-2) emulsion. This system was then acidified and the resulting microspheres were cross-linked with transglutaminase. The order in which the biopolymer phases (W-1 and W-2) and oil droplets (O) were mixed together did not impact the lipid loading capacity. Decreasing the proportion of the continuous biopolymer phase (W-2) used in the preparation procedure increased microsphere yields; however too low proportions (60-70%) caused excessive foaming and protein coagulation. Alternative methods of fabricating filled hydrogel particles using free oil (rather than emulsified oil) proved unsuccessful, resulting in the formation of large non-encapsulated oil droplets (d similar to 10 mu m). Hydrogel microspheres (d(32) similar to 3 mu m) with high stability to gravitational separation could be produced by fabricating microspheres with an oil-to-biopolymer ratio of similar to 2.6, since this ratio formed particles with a density that nearly matched the surrounding aqueous phase. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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