Food-grade nanostructured delivery systems for oral administration of astaxanthin: Bioprocessing strategies and therapeutic applications

Description

Wangsheng Jiang, Bita Badehnoosh, and Wenfeng Ruan reviewed food-grade nano carriers for a health compound in twenty twenty-five. The compound, astaxanthin, is a pigment found in nature with strong anti-oxidant and anti-swelling traits. It is held back by poor mixing with water, weak stability, and low uptake from the gut when taken by mouth.

The review covers tiny carriers made from food-safe stuff, such as fat-based bits, liposomes, protein carriers, and plant-based gels like chitosan and alginate. It weighs how they are made, how much compound they hold, how stable they stay, how they release their load, and how the gut takes them up. It also sums up gains seen for stress damage, long-term swelling, brain decline, metabolic ills, and cancer, and it notes safety rules and the hard steps in scaling up to factory size.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12789450