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  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,055 Views
16 Pages

The Potential Application of Pickering Multiple Emulsions in Food

  • Iveta Klojdová and
  • Constantinos Stathopoulos

25 May 2022

Emulsions stabilized by adsorbed particles—Pickering particles (PPs) instead of surfactants and emulsifiers are called Pickering emulsions. Here, we review the possible uses of Pickering multiple emulsions (PMEs) in the food industry. Food-grad...

  • Review
  • Open Access
239 Citations
19,554 Views
24 Pages

14 July 2020

In recent years, Pickering emulsions have emerged as a new method and have attracted much attention in the fields of food sciences. Unlike conventional emulsions, Pickering emulsions are stabilized by solid particles, which can irreversibly adsorb on...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,401 Views
19 Pages

Food-Grade Oil-in-Water (O/W) Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Agri-Food Byproduct Particles

  • César Burgos-Díaz,
  • Karla A. Garrido-Miranda,
  • Daniel A. Palacio,
  • Manuel Chacón-Fuentes,
  • Mauricio Opazo-Navarrete and
  • Mariela Bustamante

In recent years, emulsions stabilized by solid particles (known as Pickering emulsions) have gained considerable attention due to their excellent stability and for being environmentally friendly compared to the emulsions stabilized by synthetic surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
9,101 Views
15 Pages

Pickering Emulsions Containing Cellulose Microfibers Produced by Mechanical Treatments as Stabilizer in the Food Industry

  • Jose Luis Sanchez-Salvador,
  • Ana Balea,
  • M. Concepcion Monte,
  • Angeles Blanco and
  • Carlos Negro

21 January 2019

Pickering emulsions are emulsions stabilized by solid particles, which generally provide a more stable system than traditional surfactants. Among various solid stabilizers, bio-based particles from renewable resources, such as micro- and nanofibrilla...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,718 Views
35 Pages

Pickering Emulsions Based in Inorganic Solid Particles: From Product Development to Food Applications

  • Andreia Ribeiro,
  • José Carlos B. Lopes,
  • Madalena M. Dias and
  • Maria Filomena Barreiro

Pickering emulsions (PEs) have attracted attention in different fields, such as food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, mainly due to their good physical stability. PEs are a promising strategy to develop functional products since the particles’ o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
6,308 Views
14 Pages

Food-Grade Gelatin Nanoparticles: Preparation, Characterization, and Preliminary Application for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsions

  • Xin Feng,
  • Hongjie Dai,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Yong Yu,
  • Mi Tang,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Weijie Hu,
  • Tingwei Liu and
  • Yuhao Zhang

11 October 2019

In this paper, the food-grade gelatin nanoparticles (GNPs) were prepared by a two-step desolvation method and using genipin as a cross-linker. The GNPs with narrow size distribution and good dispersion could be obtained only at pH 12. The effect of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,952 Views
15 Pages

Pickering Emulsions Stabilized with Curcumin-Based Solid Dispersion Particles as Mayonnaise-like Food Sauce Alternatives

  • Larissa C. Ghirro,
  • Stephany Rezende,
  • Andreia S. Ribeiro,
  • Nuno Rodrigues,
  • Márcio Carocho,
  • José Alberto Pereira,
  • Lillian Barros,
  • Bogdan Demczuk,
  • Maria-Filomena Barreiro and
  • Arantzazu Santamaria-Echart

12 February 2022

Pickering emulsions, which are emulsions stabilized by colloidal particles, are being increasingly positioned as novel strategies to develop innovative food product solutions. In this context, the present work aims to develop Pickering emulsions stab...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,666 Views
46 Pages

An Updated Comprehensive Overview of Different Food Applications of W1/O/W2 and O1/W/O2 Double Emulsions

  • Fatemeh Ghiasi,
  • Hadi Hashemi,
  • Sara Esteghlal and
  • Seyed Mohammad Hashem Hosseini

2 February 2024

Double emulsions (DEs) present promising applications as alternatives to conventional emulsions in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries. However, most review articles have focused on the formulation, preparation approaches, physical stab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,461 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing the Retention and Oxidative Stability of Volatile Flavors: A Novel Approach Utilizing O/W Pickering Emulsions Based on Agri-Food Byproducts and Spray-Drying

  • César Burgos-Díaz,
  • Fernando Leal-Calderon,
  • Yohanna Mosi-Roa,
  • Manuel Chacón-Fuentes,
  • Karla Garrido-Miranda,
  • Mauricio Opazo-Navarrete,
  • Andrés Quiroz and
  • Mariela Bustamante

26 April 2024

Spray-drying is a commonly used method for producing powdered flavors, but the high temperatures involved often result in the loss of volatile molecules. To address this issue, our study focused on a novel approach: developing O/W Pickering emulsions...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,129 Views
50 Pages

17 September 2022

The detailed investigation of food-grade emulsions, which possess considerable structural and functional advantages, remains ongoing to enhance our understanding of these dispersion systems and to expand their application scope. This work reviews the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
15,914 Views
28 Pages

Food Emulsion Gels from Plant-Based Ingredients: Formulation, Processing, and Potential Applications

  • Canice Chun-Yin Yiu,
  • Sophie Wenfei Liang,
  • Kinza Mukhtar,
  • Woojeong Kim,
  • Yong Wang and
  • Cordelia Selomulya

26 April 2023

Recent advances in the understanding of formulations and processing techniques have allowed for greater freedom in plant-based emulsion gel design to better recreate conventional animal-based foods. The roles of plant-based proteins, polysaccharides,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,821 Views
16 Pages

Comparison of the Effects of Different Food-Grade Emulsifiers on the Properties and Stability of a Casein-Maltodextrin-Soybean Oil Compound Emulsion

  • Yuan Liu,
  • Zhen-Cheng Wei,
  • Yuan-Yuan Deng,
  • Hao Dong,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xiao-Jun Tang,
  • Ping Li,
  • Guang Liu and
  • Ming-Wei Zhang

22 January 2020

The improvement of food-grade emulsifiers in the properties and stability of complex emulsion has attracted much interest. In this study, the effects of six food-grade emulsifiers with a hydrophilic–lipophilic balance (HLB) range of 3.4–8...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,447 Views
14 Pages

The Use of Sea Buckthorn Processing Products in the Creation of a Functional Biologically Active Food Emulsion

  • Lyubov V. Tereshchuk,
  • Ksenia V. Starovoitova,
  • Pavel A. Vyushinsky and
  • Konstantin A. Zagorodnikov

26 July 2022

The current trend in dietary supplements and functional foods is the use of lipophilic bioactive compounds. The sea buckthorn (Hippóphae rhamnoídes) contains some such compounds: polyunsaturated fatty acids, tocopherols, and carotenoids...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,484 Views
26 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of Emulsion-Based Nisin Delivery Systems for Food Safety

  • John Kapolos,
  • Dimitra Giannopoulou,
  • Konstantinos Papadimitriou and
  • Athanasia Koliadima

13 April 2025

Foodborne diseases are one of the most serious problems the food sector has to confront, while questions have been raised concerning the effects of several antimicrobial additives on consumer health. Nisin is a peptide produced primarily by Lactococc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,558 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2023

Canola is the second-largest cultivated oilseed crop in the world and produces meal consisting of about 35–40% proteins. Despite this, less than 1% of the global plant-based protein market is taken up by canola protein. The reason behind such u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,341 Views
16 Pages

A Comparative Study of the Physicochemical Properties of a Virgin Coconut Oil Emulsion and Commercial Food Supplement Emulsions

  • Yih Phing Khor,
  • Soo Peng Koh,
  • Kamariah Long,
  • Shariah Long,
  • Sharifah Zarah Syed Ahmad and
  • Chin Ping Tan

1 July 2014

Food manufacturers are interested in developing emulsion-based products into nutritional foods by using beneficial oils, such as fish oil and virgin coconut oil (VCO). In this study, the physicochemical properties of a VCO oil-in-water emulsion was i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,722 Views
17 Pages

Oil Bodies Cream from Olive Paste: Extraction of a Functional Ingredient for Developing a Stable Food Emulsion

  • Simona Itri,
  • Marianna Gallo,
  • Carlo Orefice,
  • Isidoro Garella,
  • Marica Di Domenico,
  • Serena Vitali,
  • Vitale Stanzione,
  • Simonetta Grilli,
  • Pietro Ferraro and
  • Roberto Nigro

14 June 2022

Oil bodies (OBs) dispersed in an aqueous medium form a natural emulsion with high physical and microbiological stability. This work was focused on the development of a new protocol for extracting OBs from olive paste, through the extraction of an oli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
897 Views
21 Pages

Plant Proteins as Alternative Natural Emulsifiers in Food Emulsions

  • Dominika Kaczmarek,
  • Marta Pokora-Carzynska,
  • Leslaw Juszczak,
  • Ewelina Jamroz and
  • Janusz Kapusniak

13 December 2025

The growing interest in plant-based ingredients in food production has increased the demand for effective alternatives to animal-derived emulsifiers. In this study, the physicochemical and functional properties of selected commercial plant protein pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,785 Views
19 Pages

11 November 2022

The present study aims to identify and quantify the phenolic compounds of Azadirachta indica leaf extract using HPLC-MS and to evaluate the antioxidant, antibacterial (against different Gram-positive and negative bacteria) and in vitro anti-prolifera...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,354 Views
16 Pages

15 December 2022

The Pickering emulsion stabilized by food-grade colloidal particles has developed rapidly in recent decades and attracts extensive attention for potential applications in the food industry. Bacterial cellulose nanofibrils (BCNFs), as green and sustai...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,563 Views
8 Pages

Development of Lentil Aquafaba-Based Food Emulsions with Xanthan Gum or Pregelatinized Corn Starch as Stabilizers

  • Valentyna Dehtiar,
  • Anastasiia Sachko,
  • Anna Radchenko,
  • Olha Hrynchenko and
  • Sergey Gubsky

Currently, there is an increasing trend towards the use of legumes aquafaba-based emulsions for food applications. In this study, emulsions containing 30 and 60% sunflower oil with lentil aquafaba (LA) were developed, and xanthan or pregelatinized co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,891 Views
18 Pages

Research Progress of Food-Grade High Internal Phase Pickering Emulsions and Their Application in 3D Printing

  • Chao Wu,
  • Zhe Liu,
  • Lanyi Zhi,
  • Bo Jiao,
  • Yanjie Tian,
  • Hongzhi Liu,
  • Hui Hu,
  • Xiaojie Ma,
  • Marc Pignitter and
  • Aimin Shi
  • + 1 author

26 August 2022

High internal phase Pickering emulsion (HIPPE) is a type of emulsion stabilized by solid particles irreversibly adsorbed on an interfacial film, and the volume fraction of the dispersed phase (Φ) is larger than the maximum packing volume fraction (Φm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,498 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2024

Cream-type emulsions containing candelilla wax-based oleogels (EC) were analyzed for their physicochemical properties compared to palm oil-based creams (EP). The microstructure, rheological behavior, stability, and color of the creams were determined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,712 Views
16 Pages

Preparation and Characterization of Food-Grade Pickering Emulsions Stabilized with Chitosan-Phytic Acid-Cyclodextrin Nanoparticles

  • Jiaxin Lu,
  • Xiaojing Li,
  • Chao Qiu,
  • David Julian McClements,
  • Aiquan Jiao,
  • Jinpeng Wang and
  • Zhengyu Jin

3 February 2022

This study aimed to fabricate food-grade Pickering emulsions stabilized by chitosan-phytic acid-β-cyclodextrin (CS-PA-CD) nanoparticles. The CS-PA-CD nanoparticles were characterized with FITR, XRD, and TGA to prove its successfully crosslinking...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,871 Views
14 Pages

Interest of Pickering Emulsions for Sustainable Micro/Nanocellulose in Food and Cosmetic Applications

  • Louise Perrin,
  • Guillaume Gillet,
  • Laurianne Gressin and
  • Stephane Desobry

16 October 2020

In the present review, natural and non-toxic particles made of micro/nanocellulose were specifically targeted as stabilizers of emulsions located at dispersed and continuous phases interfaces (called Pickering Emulsions, PEs). PEs are biphasic system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
11,503 Views
16 Pages

Optimization of the Emulsifying Properties of Food Protein Hydrolysates for the Production of Fish Oil-in-Water Emulsions

  • Marta Padial-Domínguez,
  • F. Javier Espejo-Carpio,
  • Raúl Pérez-Gálvez,
  • Antonio Guadix and
  • Emilia M. Guadix

15 May 2020

The incorporation of lipid ingredients into food matrices presents a main drawback—their susceptibility to oxidation—which is associated with the loss of nutritional properties and the generation of undesirable flavors and odors. Oil-in-w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,964 Views
21 Pages

Plant-Based Oil-in-Water Food Emulsions: Exploring the Influence of Different Formulations on Their Physicochemical Properties

  • Carolina Quezada,
  • Matías Urra,
  • Camila Mella,
  • Rommy N. Zúñiga and
  • Elizabeth Troncoso

7 February 2024

The global focus on incorporating natural ingredients into the diet for health improvement encompasses ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) derived from plant sources, such as flaxseed oil. ω-3 PUFAs are susceptible to oxidation, but o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,676 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2025

Aligning with sustainable green practices, this study examines the partial replacement of chickpea protein isolate with commercially available autotrophic Chlorella vulgaris (Auto-Chlorella) and heterotrophic Parachlorella kessleri (Hetero-Chlorella)...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
564 Views
12 Pages

9 October 2025

In this study, beans aquafaba was used as the emulsifying agent for oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions with sunflower oil concentrations of 30% and 60%. The primary approach to stabilizing such emulsions is by increasing their viscosity through the incorpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,934 Views
12 Pages

A Biosurfactant from Candida bombicola: Its Synthesis, Characterization, and its Application as a Food Emulsions

  • Maria Isabel Silveira Pinto,
  • Jenyffer Medeiros Campos Guerra,
  • Hugo Morais Meira,
  • Leonie Asfora Sarubbo and
  • Juliana Moura de Luna

16 February 2022

The present study aimed to produce a biosurfactant from Candida yeast cultivated in a low-cost medium made of sugar-cane molasses (5%), frying oil waste (5%), and corn steep liquor (5%). Initially, the production at the flask-scale was investigated a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
10,482 Views
13 Pages

Antioxidant Properties of Artemisia annua Extracts in Model Food Emulsions

  • Monika Skowyra,
  • Maria Gabriela Gallego,
  • Francisco Segovia and
  • Maria Pilar Almajano

3 March 2014

Artemisia annua is currently the only commercial source of the sesquiterpene lactone artemisinin. Although artemisinin is a major bioactive component present in this Chinese herb, leaf flavonoids have shown a variety of biological activities. The po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,396 Views
23 Pages

Designing Gel-Inspired Food-Grade O/W Pickering Emulsions with Bacterial Nanocellulose–Chitosan Complexes

  • Antiopi Vardaxi,
  • Eftychios Apostolidis,
  • Ioanna G. Mandala,
  • Stergios Pispas,
  • Aristeidis Papagiannopoulos and
  • Erminta Tsouko

24 July 2025

This study explored the potential of chitosan (CH)/bacterial cellulose (BC) complexes (0.5% w/v) as novel emulsifiers to stabilize oil-in-water (o/w) Pickering emulsions (20% v/v sunflower oil), with a focus on their gel-like behavior. Emulsions were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,191 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Perilla frutescens Extract on the Oxidative Stability of Model Food Emulsions

  • Monika Skowyra,
  • Victor Falguera,
  • Nurul A. M. Azman,
  • Francisco Segovia and
  • Maria P. Almajano

22 January 2014

The polyphenolic profile of leaves and stalks of Perilla frutescens, was assessed as a source of natural antioxidants. The amount of caffeic and rosmarinic acids, determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), were 0.51 mg/g dry weight...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,020 Views
35 Pages

Starch-Based Pickering Emulsions for Bioactive Compound Encapsulation: Production, Properties, and Applications

  • Giselle Vallim Corrêa Ramos,
  • Santiago Ramírez-López,
  • Samantha Cristina de Pinho,
  • Cynthia Ditchfield and
  • Izabel Cristina Freitas Moraes

26 January 2025

This review explores the extensive literature on starch particle-stabilized Pickering emulsions for encapsulating bioactive compounds in food products. These emulsions offer superior stability and unique properties for delivering bioactive compounds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,417 Views
14 Pages

Pickering Particles Prepared from Food Waste

  • Joanne Gould,
  • Guillermo Garcia-Garcia and
  • Bettina Wolf

21 September 2016

In this paper, we demonstrate the functionality and functionalisation of waste particles as an emulsifier for oil-in-water (o/w) and water-in-oil (w/o) emulsions. Ground coffee waste was chosen as a candidate waste material due to its naturally high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,914 Views
18 Pages

Pea and Soy Protein Stabilized Emulsions: Formulation, Structure, and Stability Studies

  • Eleni Galani,
  • Isabelle Ly,
  • Eric Laurichesse,
  • Veronique Schmitt,
  • Aristotelis Xenakis and
  • Maria D. Chatzidaki

During the last decades, there has been a huge consumer concern about animal proteins that has led to their replacement with plant proteins. Most of those proteins exhibit emulsifying properties; thus, the food industry begins their extensive use in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,989 Views
29 Pages

20 January 2023

Protein-based high internal phase Pickering emulsions (HIPEs) are emulsions using protein particles as a stabilizer in which the volume fraction of the dispersed phase exceeds 74%. Stabilizers are irreversibly adsorbed at the interface of the oil pha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,972 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2023

Spirulina consists of a cluster of green-colored cyanobacteria; it is commonly consumed as a food or food supplement rich in bioactive compounds with antioxidant activity, predominantly C-phycocyanin (C-PC), which is related to anti-inflammatory acti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,271 Views
26 Pages

Emulsions Incorporated in Polysaccharide-Based Active Coatings for Fresh and Minimally Processed Vegetables

  • Marina Ramos,
  • Cristina Mellinas,
  • Ignacio Solaberrieta,
  • María Carmen Garrigós and
  • Alfonso Jiménez

20 March 2021

The consumption of minimally processed fresh vegetables has increased by the consumer’s demand of natural products without synthetic preservatives and colorants. These new consumption behaviors have prompted research on the combination of emulsion te...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,299 Views
24 Pages

13 August 2025

Plant-based foods have emerged as a major focus of the modern food industry as it tries to create more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and healthy products. Plant-based emulsion gels (PBEGs) can be used to provide valuable structures, textures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,977 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Study of Food-Grade Pickering Stabilizers Obtained from Agri-Food Byproducts: Chemical Characterization and Emulsifying Capacity

  • César Burgos-Díaz,
  • Yohanna Mosi-Roa,
  • Mauricio Opazo-Navarrete,
  • Mariela Bustamante and
  • Karla Garrido-Miranda

20 August 2022

Natural Pickering emulsions are gaining popularity in several industrial fields, especially in the food industry and plant-based alternative sector. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize and compare six agri-food wastes/byproduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,896 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2021

The functional and sensory properties of food emulsion are thought to be complicated and influenced by many factors, such as the emulsifier, oil/fat mass fraction, and size of oil/fat droplets. In addition, the perceived texture of food emulsion duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,677 Views
22 Pages

27 January 2025

To date, extensive studies have focused on developing proteins as stabilizers to fabricate food-grade emulsions for encapsulating bioactive compounds aimed at targeted delivery. This paper aimed to develop a novel stabilizer using foxtail millet prol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,666 Views
10 Pages

Corn-Starch-Based Materials Incorporated with Cinnamon Oil Emulsion: Physico-Chemical Characterization and Biological Activity

  • Edaena Pamela Díaz-Galindo,
  • Aleksandra Nesic,
  • Silvia Bautista-Baños,
  • Octavio Dublan García and
  • Gustavo Cabrera-Barjas

10 April 2020

Active packaging represents a large and diverse group of materials, with its main role being to prolong the shelf-life of food products. In this work, active biomaterials based on thermoplastic starch-containing cinnamon oil emulsions were prepared b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,025 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2022

Chitin nanocrystals (ChNCs) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have been recently used to stabilize emulsions; however, they generally require significant amounts of salt, limiting their applicability in food products. In this study, we developed nano...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,393 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2023

A Pickering emulsion was prepared using β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and a cinnamaldehyde (CA)/β-CD composite as emulsifiers and corn oil, camellia oil, lard oil, and fish oil as oil phases. It was confirmed that Pickering emulsions prepared...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
5,195 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2021

Here we introduce a new method aiming the immobilization of bioactive principles onto polymeric substrates, combining a surface activation and emulsion entrapment approach. Natural products with antimicrobial/antioxidant properties (essential oil fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,426 Views
16 Pages

Soybean residue, kudzu root residue, astragalus residue and pomegranate peel residue are byproducts of food processing with high yield. In the food processing industry in Northwest China, these waste residues contain a large amount of nutrients and h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,865 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2024

In response to environmental issues, upcycling has become a growing trend in the food industry. Aquasoya is a promising method to upcycle by-product from soybean processing due to its high protein contents and excellent emulsifying ability. In the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,330 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Animal Fat Replacement by Emulsified Melon and Pumpkin Seed Oils in Deer Burgers

  • Elena Martínez,
  • José E. Pardo,
  • Adrián Rabadán and
  • Manuel Álvarez-Ortí

17 March 2023

Meat products such as burgers contain large amounts of saturated fat and are considered unhealthy foods by a society that is increasingly aware of the impact of food on their health, as there is a widespread idea that the consumption of large amounts...

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