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Published on: March 21, 2016
Enhanced fish oil-in-water emulsions enabled by rapeseed lecithins obtained under different processing conditions
Jingbo Li1, Jacob Nedergaard Pedersen1, Sampson Anankanbil1
1Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 10B, Building 3141, Room 1.28, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Abstract:
It is hypothesized that rapeseed lecithins may have different emulsifying and antioxidant properties in delivering fish oil compared to soy lecithin based on previous studies. The results showed that in vitro antioxidant activities of rapeseed lecithins were stronger than those of soy lecithin. Emulsions stabilized by rapeseed based lecithins and DATEM were stable over 3 months at 4 °C, whereas the creaming of emulsions containing soy lecithin started immediately after its preparation. Zeta-potential of rapeseed lecithins was higher than soy lecithin and DATEM, which partially contributed to the emulsion stability. Although the particle sizes of emulsions prepared by rapeseed lecithins increased after 14 days storage, no creaming was observed. Lipid oxidation as indicated by TBARS values suggested that DATEM was the most unfavorable, followed by soy lecithin. It is concluded that rapeseed lecithins are better than soy lecithin and DATEM in terms of emulsion stability and antioxidant capability, respectively.
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