FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 265-271.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201809040

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Progress in Microencapsulation of Functional Food Ingredients by Complex Coacervation Method

WANG Ying, ZHAO Meng, HUANG Xue, FANG Yapeng*   

  1. Glyn O. Phillips Hydrocolloid Research Centre, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
  • Online:2018-05-15 Published:2018-05-15

Abstract: Complex coacervation is an emerging technology for microencapsulation, which has attracted increasing attention from food researchers. This review elucidates the environmental factors influencing complex coacervation. Herein we summarize recent advances in the application of complex coacervation in the microencapsulation of lipid-soluble functional ingredients such as functional oil, essential oil, fat-soluble vitamins and fat-soluble antioxidants, and hydrophilic ingredients such as probiotics, enzyme, water-soluble vitamin, sweetener and bitter peptide.

Key words: functional food ingredient, lipid-soluble ingredient, hydrophilic ingredient, microencapsulation, complex coacervation

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