The global demand for healthier food products has led to the introduction of functional foods
fortified with bioactive agents, such as vitamins and nutraceuticals. Many of these bioactive …

Introduction: Oral delivery of therapeutics, particularly protein-based pharmaceutics, is of
great interest for safe and controlled drug delivery for patients. Hydrogels offer excellent …

Nutraceuticals are bioactive molecules found in foods that may improve human
performance, wellbeing, or health. The potential health benefits of many nutraceuticals are …

Numerous lipophilic bioactive agents within the food and pharmaceutical industries need to
be encapsulated within delivery systems to overcome problems associated with poor water …

A new rationale of preparing pH-sensitive hydrogels based on thermally reversible polymers
is proposed, according to which a new class of hydrogels has been synthesized. These …

A pH-responsive hydrogel system was prepared by free radical polymerization of acrylamide
and methyl acrylic acid in the presence of NN′-methylene bisacrylamide. Sodium …

Complex challenges are facing the food industry as it develops novel and innovative
products for the consumer marketplace. Food processing and preservation are primarily …

Food hydrogels are biopolymeric materials made from food-grade biopolymers with gelling
properties (proteins and polysaccharides) and a 3D network capable of incorporating large …

Probiotics must survive in foods and passage through the human mouth, stomach, and small
intestine to reach the colon in a viable state and exhibit their beneficial health effects …

Hydrogels synthesized from poly (l-lysine isophthalamide)(PLP) crosslinked with l-lysine
methyl ester were investigated as drug delivery systems for a wide size range of molecules …