Enhancing nutraceutical bioavailability using excipient emulsions: Influence of lipid droplet size on solubility and bioaccessibility of powdered curcumin

The influence of lipid droplet size of excipient emulsions on the solubility and bioaccessibility of powdered curcumin was investigated. Corn oil-in-water emulsions with different initial mean droplet diameters were prepared: large (d32 ≈ 14 µm); medium (d32 ≈ 0.52 µm); small (d32 ≈ 0.18 µm). These...

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Main Authors: Liqiang Zou, Bingjing Zheng, Wei Liu, Chengmei Liu, Hang Xiao, David Julian McClements
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-05-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464615001061