Bioactive compounds delivery using nanotechnology: design and applications in dairy food

Functional foods provide health benefits over and above normal nutrition. Dairy benefits are understandable to many of consumers and the products available are affordable even with value-added benefits and most of the functional food market’s innovation occurs in the dairy segment because dairy is both an important source of beneficial components as well as being a well-accepted vehicle for delivery of those benefits. nanoencapsulation appears as a promising strategy to design this functional foods. The use of nano-carriers for hydrophobic and hydrophilic nutraceutical compounds have multiple benefits such as production of them against light, oxygen and other conditions. In this research use of the nanocarriers for encapsulation of bioactive compounds in dairy products have been discussed.

Keywords:

Bioactive compounds , nanodelivery systems , encapsulation , dairy foods