Lipofoods' microencapsulated ingredients solve key bioavailability issues
20 May 2020 | Lipofoods, part of Lubrizol Life Science
Isabel Gómez, of Lipofoods, part of Lubrizol Life Science, highlights the microencapsulation technology used for botanical ingredients Curcushine and Astagile. The technology improves the bioavailability and stability issues commonly associated with curcumin and astaxanthin. This comes as consumer demand continues to rise for natural solutions in both the skin care and brain health arenas.
This is Annie Schleicher reporting for Nutrition Insight.
I'm here with Isabel Gomez, Global Marketing Manager of Lorisil Life Science Health.
She is here to speak about the developments progressing at Lipo Foods, which recently joined the health team at the LSS.
Isabel, can you tell me which ingredients your company is currently highlighting and why Lipa Foods is launching these ingredients now?
Certainly, today we're highlighting our micro-encapsulated botanical ingredients.
These products are, tayl microcapsules, which is based on micro-encapsulate astxanthin, and coco shine, which is based on micro-encapsulated curcumin.
So why do we choose to micro-encapsulate these ingredients?
Both curcumin and estay have been, demanded due to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
However, both ingredients, curcumin and staxanthin have some issues that may limit their potential and their application in tro into nutraceutical products.
That's why we decided to micro-encapsulate these two ingredients in order to address these problems they may have.
And what kind of challenges did your R&D team face when developing the micro-encapsulation technology, and how did you overcome these issues?
In the case of curcumin, the main problem is that it's, poorly soluble and bioavailable.
So in the case of Aztec sandin, the key problem is that it's not stable due to its natural structure.
So, for R&D, what I was challenging that we wanted to offer a 100% natural product, so they needed to choose the coding materials that were natural to encapsulate both curcumin and astashantin.
In the case of the curcumin.
The problem for R&D was also to select the optimal particle sizes for the curcumin particles prior to the micro encapsulation and also in the case of as example, the, the very, the most important challenge is to be able to extract successfully.
The azoxxanthin rich oil from Ematococcus pluvialis, it has to be under very gentle and controlled conditions in order to avoid the oxidation or the damage of the axaxanthin molecules.
So these are where the challenges, mostly for R&D.
Hmm, very interesting.
Do, can you tell me more about where and when these ingredients will be available to market?
Yes, these ingredients are already available.
Kurusian was launched last year in Vita Foods, and for us, the gel, the fish launch is going to take place in September during Vita Foods.
So we already have available both products and samples of the products.
And what delivery formats are best suited for both of these ingredients?
Only capsules, as micro-encapsulation perhaps suggests, or are there other applications imaginable?
Yeah, the fact that they are micro-encapsulated enables, all kinds of nutraceutical applications, not only tablets or capsules, but also nutritional powders that can come in formats such as sachettes and sticks.
And in the case of cucu shine, given the fact there is a water soluble curcumin source, it also enables functional food like beauty drinks, for instance.
Do you see a large demand for these kind of ingredients, or how do you see this trend evolving in the case of the curcumin?
We've seen there is a big demand on skin from within kind of solutions because people are more aware of the link between nutrition and skin appearance, so we see a big demand of natural solutions that addresses skin care.
So I think that's a very good positioning for Cucu shine because it's oriented for skin health.
And in the case of axanthin, it has a very unique mechanism for the brain, performance because it's able to cross the blood-brain barrier exerting a neuroprotective effect on the brain.
So there is also a big demand of consumers to preserve the cognitive function.
That is why astroxanthin and this kind of neotropic ingredients are a big demand in a current, in the current spotlight.
I see.
Very interesting.
Thank you so much, Isabel.
Thank you guys.
