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- Title
Food macromolecule based nanodelivery systems for enhancing the bioavailability of polyphenols.
- Authors
Bing Hu; Xixia Liu; Chunlan Zhang; Xiaoxiong Zeng
- Abstract
Diet polyphenols--primarily categorized into flavonoids (e.g., flavonols, flavones, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanidins, flavanones, and isoflavones) and nonflavonoids (with major subclasses of stilbenes and phenolic acids)--are reported to have health-promoting effects, such as antioxidant, antiinflammatory, anticarcinoma, antimicrobial, antiviral, and cardioprotective properties. However, their applications in functional foods or medicine are limited because of their inefficient systemic delivery and poor oral bioavailability. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate, curcumin, and resveratrol are the well-known representatives of the bioactive diet polyphenols but with poor bioavailability. Food macromolecule based nanoparticles have been fabricated using reassembled proteins, crosslinked polysaccharides, proteine--polysaccharide conjugates (complexes), as well as emulsified lipid via safe procedures that could be applied in food. The human gastrointestinal digestion tract is the first place where the food grade macromolecule nanoparticles exert their effects on improving the bioavailability of diet polyphenols, via enhancing their solubility, preventing their degradation in the intestinal environment, elevating the permeation in small intestine, and even increasing their contents in the bloodstream. We contend that the stability and structure behaviors of nanocarriers in the gastrointestinal tract environment and the effects of nanoencapsulation on the metabolism of polyphenols warrant more focused attention in further studies.
- Subjects
BIOAVAILABILITY; DIGESTION; LIPIDS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYPHENOLS; PROTEINS; RESVERATROL; CURCUMIN
- Publication
Journal of Food & Drug Analysis, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1021-9498
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.jfda.2016.11.004