Microencapsulation applied to Botanicals by Lubrizol
During this webinar, the audience will learn some benefits about Lipofoods™ microencapsulation technologies applied to botanical ingredients such as curcumin and astaxanthin. These two ingredients are very well known due to their health properties; however, they exhibit some problems that can significantly limit their use in nutraceutical applications.
In the case of curcumin, its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential is limited by its poor solubility and its low bioavailability. In the case of astaxanthin, due to its highly conjugated, double-bond structure, it is unstable during production and storage.
In this respect, LLS Health presents Lipofoods™ microencapsulated technical solutions applied to these botanical ingredients and can be found in the following branded ingredients:
• CURCUSHINE™ microcapsules, bioavailable and soluble microencapsulated curcumin with proven anti-aging benefits. In this case, curcumin´s solubility is highly enhanced compared to the extract thanks to the microencapsulation process and consequently the bioavailability is increased. Another advantage of microencapsulation is that is allows the poorly soluble curcumin to be applied in water-soluble formulations like functional beverages.
• ASTAGILE™ microcapsules, a natural, stable microencapsulated astaxanthin with proven neuroprotective efficacy. The key innovation of the product is that it is an all-natural ingredient based on astaxanthin microencapsulated with other bioactive algae ingredients for enhanced benefits. In this case microencapsulation gives a solution to astaxanthin stability limitations as it protects and stabilizes the extract of Haematococcus pluvialis rich in astaxanthin while improving its health properties.
After this webinar, the audience will have a better idea of how our core technology strength in microencapsulation applied to our botanical ingredients gives them a potential basis to develop premium final nutraceutical products.