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Encapsulation of Herbal Extracts

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 55

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From antiquity to till now, humans preferred natural and easily consumable vegetables, herbs, shrubs, and essential oils which have been added to the different food, beverages, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries. The phytoactive compounds present in the plant which flattering more attention-grabbing vicinity in prophylactic studies because of being health-promoting capabilities. Polyphenols are a major group of phytoactive constituents which includes flavonoids, anthocyanins, so on and besides, they are also measured as food ingredients and found unsurprisingly in approximately all vegetables, fruits, and nuts. These phytoactive compounds afford a lot of dietetic ideals at the side of curative and stabilizer actions. The health problems like kidney disease, appetite aches, intestinal problems, liver and gall bladder problems outstanding to the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-carcinogenic can be cured by the bioactive compounds that frequently institute in herbs and shrubs. These bioactive or chemical compounds of herbs and shrubs boast many important functional groups such as oxygenated compounds like aromatics, alcohols, aldehydes, phenols, sesquiterpene alcohol, esters, lactones, oxides, ethers and they also bear monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, and aromatics. All the bioactive/phytoactive compounds are extremely susceptible to the environmental and chemical factors which are responsible for the degradation and inactivation of the compound. The stability of the innate antioxidants such as flavonoids, polyphenols, and other phytoactive compounds is depending on the preservation method. Hence, for the preservation of these bio or phytoactive compounds for their stability, encapsulation is the prospective strategy. In encapsulation, the inner phase is a phytoactive herbal compound, and the outer phase is of second core material phase, former lucratively tried for the deliverance of confident phytoactive compounds.

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Mishra, S., Sahani, S., Arvind, Pal, V. (2021). Encapsulation of Herbal Extracts. In: Maurya, V.K., Gothandam, K.M., Ranjan, S., Dasgupta, N., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 55. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76813-3_5

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