Issue 2, 2024

Structured soft particulate matters for delivery of bioactive compounds in foods and functioning in the colon

Abstract

The present review discusses challenges, perspectives, and current needs of delivering bioactive compounds (BCs) using soft particulate matters (SPMs) for gut health. SPMs can entrap BCs for incorporation in foods, preserve their bioactivities during processing, storage, and gastrointestinal digestion, and deliver BCs to functioning sites in the colon. To enable these functions, physical, chemical, and biological properties of BCs are integrated in designing various types of SPMs to overcome environmental factors reducing the bioavailability and bioactivity of BCs. The design principles are applied using food grade molecules with the desired properties to produce SPMs by additionally considering the cost, sustainability, and scalability of manufacturing processes. Lastly, to make delivery systems practical, impacts of SPMs on food quality are to be evaluated case by case, and health benefits of functional foods incorporated with delivery systems are to be confirmed and must outweigh the cost of preparing SPMs.

Graphical abstract: Structured soft particulate matters for delivery of bioactive compounds in foods and functioning in the colon

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
01 jul 2023
Accepted
08 dec 2023
First published
08 dec 2023

Soft Matter, 2024,20, 277-293

Structured soft particulate matters for delivery of bioactive compounds in foods and functioning in the colon

Q. Zhong, F. Reyes-Jurado and K. F. Calumba, Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 277 DOI: 10.1039/D3SM00866E

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