Properties of Heat-Assisted pH Shifting and Compounded Chitosan from Insoluble Rice Peptide Precipitate and Its Application in the Curcumin-Loaded Pickering Emulsions
Zhenyu Yang, Zhiying Li, Zitong Xu, Zhihao Kong, Xin Qiao, Liwen Zhang, Lei Dai, Yanfei Wang, Qingjie Sun, David Julian McClements, Xingfeng Xu, José M Benito · 2023
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Zhenyu Yang and co-authors turn a rice processing waste into a food ingredient that carries curcumin, in a 2023 paper. Curcumin, a plant compound with health promise, breaks down easily and dissolves poorly. The team used leftover rice peptide sludge, normally thrown away, and treated it with heat and pH shifts, then mixed it with chitosan.
The mix forms particles that sit at the border between oil and water, steadying droplets in what are called Pickering emulsions. Adding more chitosan lowered surface tension but made the particles larger, and one recipe formed the softest, most stable layer. Emulsions built this way kept better in storage than plain peptide ones. They also released less free fat during digestion and let more curcumin through to be absorbed.
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| CREATOR | Zhenyu Yang, Zhiying Li, Zitong Xu, Zhihao Kong, Xin Qiao, Liwen Zhang, Lei Dai, Yanfei Wang, Qingjie Sun, David Julian McClements, Xingfeng Xu, José M Benito |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |