Probiotic encapsulation

Encapsulation Technology to Protect Probiotic Bacteria

Probiotic bacteria are used in production of functional foods and pharmaceutical products. They play an important role in promoting and maintaining human health. In order, to produce health benefits probiotic strains should be present in a viable form at a suitable level during the product is shelf life until consumption and maintain high viability throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Many re...

Probiotic Encapsulation Technology: From Microencapsulation to Release into the Gut

Probiotic encapsulation technology (PET) has the potential to protect microorgansisms and to deliver them into the gut. Because of the promising preclinical and clinical results, probiotics have been incorporated into a range of products. However, there are still many challenges to overcome with respect to the microencapsulation process and the conditions prevailing in the gut. This paper revie...

Supercritical CO2 interpolymer complex encapsulation improves heat stability of probiotic bifidobacteria.

The probiotic industry faces the challenge of retention of probiotic culture viability as numbers of these cells within their products inevitably decrease over time. In order to retain probiotic viability levels above the therapeutic minimum over the duration of the product's shelf life, various methods have been employed, among which encapsulation has received much interest. In line with explo...

Encapsulation of Probiotic Microorganisms in Food-Grade Hydrogel Microbeads for Improving Long-Term Storage and Oral Delivery

Hermetic Encapsulation

‘Hermetic sealing’ is defined by the Shorter OED as “air-tight closure of a vessel by fusion, soldering or welding”. The term ‘hermetic package’ used in the electronics industry is however at best slightly misleading, in that the term is used to describe components where the die and associated bonds are sealed within a cavity in a hollow package (as distinct from being embedded in a resin), and...