A comprehensive study of physical, antimicrobial and emulsifying properties of self-assembled chitosan/lecithin complexes produced in aqueous media

Demand for products containing natural compounds has grown in recent decades and synthetic emulsifiers probably will be replaced. Lecithin is a natural emulsifier, but it has low emulsifying capacity for stabilizing oil-in water emulsions and does not show antimicrobial property. Thus, we proposed t...

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Main Authors: Antônio Matias Navarrete de Toledo, Nathália Cristina Cirone Silva, Ana Carla Kawazoe Sato, Carolina Siqueira Franco Picone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-12-01
Series:Future Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666833521000733