Innovations and Applications in Encapsulation of Food Bioactive Ingredients
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2025 | Viewed by 1619
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food bioactive ingredients; encapsulation technology; food physical processing; delivery system
Interests: food protein; polysaccharide based delivery carrier; physical processing; liposome nanocarrier; food precise nutrition
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Dear Colleagues,
Some food bioactive ingredients (curcumin, resveratrol, etc.) play important biological functions in the human body. Still, their bioavailability cannot be fully utilized due to environmental stress during storage and gastrointestinal barriers such as pH and enzymes during digestion. Seeking breakthroughs in the stability and targeted delivery of bioactive ingredients during storage and digestion is fundamental to their application in the food industry. Besides, using key compounds for the modification of carriers is crucial in achieving precise targeting nutrition. Hence, the application of innovative encapsulation technology and specific modifications especially focused on specific biomacromolecules (polysaccharides, proteins, etc.) to load bioactive ingredients is a powerful solution for the issues mentioned above. This special issue aims to explore the current research progress, innovative potential, and industry demand for encapsulation technology of food bioactive ingredients. Therefore, this special issue welcomes submissions from different delivery systems regarding the encapsulation of food bioactive ingredients, including preparation, modification, characterization, stability, digestion process, precise targeting evaluation, and more. In addition, insightful reviews are more popular and highly regarded.
Dr. Jixian Zhang
Dr. Chaoting Wen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food bioactive ingredients
- functional factor stabilization
- encapsulation
- delivery system
- controlled release
- stability
- precise nutrition
- bioavailability
- biological activity
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