Measuring Encapsulation Efficacy

A wide variety of ingredients, ranging from flavors to probiotics and other bioactive ingredients, are encapsulated for use in foods, beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Numerous techniques and materials are used to encapsulate these ingredients, and various methods are used to evaluate their efficacy in delivering the encapsulated materials in the human body.

James Oxley, Senior Research Scientist in the Dept. of Microencapsulation & Nanomaterials at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, …