Plant-Based Colloidal Delivery Systems for Bioactives. 2021

Yunbing Tan, and David Julian McClements
Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

The supplementation of plant-based foods and beverages with bioactive agents may be an important strategy for increasing human healthiness. Numerous kinds of colloidal delivery systems have been developed to encapsulate bioactives with the goal of improving their water dispersibility, chemical stability, and bioavailability. In this review, we focus on colloidal delivery systems assembled entirely from plant-based ingredients, such as lipids, proteins, polysaccharides, phospholipids, and surfactants isolated from botanical sources. In particular, the utilization of these ingredients to create plant-based nanoemulsions, nanoliposomes, nanoparticles, and microgels is covered. The utilization of these delivery systems to encapsulate, protect, and release various kinds of bioactives is highlighted, including oil-soluble vitamins (like vitamin D), ω-3 oils, carotenoids (vitamin A precursors), curcuminoids, and polyphenols. The functionality of these delivery systems can be tailored to specific applications by careful selection of ingredients and processing operations, as this enables the composition, size, shape, internal structure, surface chemistry, and electrical characteristics of the colloidal particles to be controlled. The plant-based delivery systems discussed in this article may be useful for introducing active ingredients into the next generation of plant-based foods, meat, seafood, milk, and egg analogs. Nevertheless, there is still a need to systematically compare the functional performance of different delivery systems for specific applications to establish the most appropriate one. In addition, there is a need to test their efficacy at delivering bioavailable forms of bioactives using in vivo studies.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D003102 Colloids Two-phase systems in which one is uniformly dispersed in another as particles small enough so they cannot be filtered or will not settle out. The dispersing or continuous phase or medium envelops the particles of the discontinuous phase. All three states of matter can form colloids among each other. Hydrocolloids,Colloid,Hydrocolloid
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D016503 Drug Delivery Systems Systems for the delivery of drugs to target sites of pharmacological actions. Technologies employed include those concerning drug preparation, route of administration, site targeting, metabolism, and toxicity. Drug Targeting,Delivery System, Drug,Delivery Systems, Drug,Drug Delivery System,Drug Targetings,System, Drug Delivery,Systems, Drug Delivery,Targeting, Drug,Targetings, Drug
D049329 Nanostructures Materials which have structured components with at least one dimension in the range of 1 to 100 nanometers. These include NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; and NANOWIRES. Nanomaterials,Nanostructured Materials,Material, Nanostructured,Materials, Nanostructured,Nanomaterial,Nanostructure,Nanostructured Material
D064209 Phytochemicals A broad range of biologically active compounds which occur naturally in plants having important medicinal and nutritional properties. Dietary Phytochemical,Plant Bioactive Compound,Plant Biologically Active Compound,Plant-Derived Chemical,Plant-Derived Compound,Bioactive Coumpounds, Plant,Biologically Active Coumpounds, Plant,Dietary Phytochemicals,Phytochemical,Phytonutrient,Phytonutrients,Plant Bioactive Compounds,Plant Biologically Active Compounds,Plant-Derived Chemicals,Plant-Derived Compounds,Bioactive Compound, Plant,Bioactive Compounds, Plant,Chemical, Plant-Derived,Chemicals, Plant-Derived,Compound, Plant Bioactive,Compound, Plant-Derived,Compounds, Plant Bioactive,Compounds, Plant-Derived,Coumpounds, Plant Bioactive,Phytochemical, Dietary,Phytochemicals, Dietary,Plant Bioactive Coumpounds,Plant Derived Chemical,Plant Derived Chemicals,Plant Derived Compound,Plant Derived Compounds

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