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Extraction of Plant-based Capsules for Microencapsulation Applications
Published on: November 9, 2016
Construction of caffeic acid modified porous starch as the dual-functional microcapsule for encapsulation and
Zidi Chen1, Yunxiang Ma2, Lina Gou1
1College of Food Science and Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China.
Abstract:
A dual-functional food-grade microcapsule, which was constructed by caffeic acid and porous starch was obtained. Caffeic acid modified porous starch (CA-PS) was accordingly synthesized successfully by esterification. Carbonyl signal observed by 13C solid state NMR (170 ppm) and FT-IR (1745 cm-1), indicating the formation of ester bond. BET of CA-PS was determined as 44.8 m2/g by N2 adsorption analysis. The results proved CA-PS has both excellent adsorption and antioxidant activity. Furthermore, it has been applied for encapsulation of linoleic acid (LA) to prevent its degradation effectively, because LA adsorbed in porous adsorbents without antioxidant activity may still suffer serious oxidation. Besides, 1H NMR Integral of LA did not show a significant decay. This observation demonstrated CA-PS indeed has the better performance on protection of LA than PS. We expect this work will boost research on designing and employing multi-functional starchy materials for further applications.
