Design principles of food gels

Y Cao, R Mezzenga - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally sourced gels from food biopolymers have advanced in recent decades to compare
favourably in performance and breadth of application to their synthetic counterparts. Here …

Oleogels in food: A review of current and potential applications

A Pușcaș, V Mureșan, C Socaciu, S Muste - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
Legislative limitations of the use of trans and saturated fatty acids, the rising concerns
among consumers about the negative effects of some fats on human health, and …

Whey and soy protein-based hydrogels and nano-hydrogels as bioactive delivery systems

A Abaee, M Mohammadian, SM Jafari - Trends in Food Science & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Bioactive molecules are mostly amenable to degradation at processing,
storage, and harsh digestion conditions. Hence, high-throughput encapsulation bodies must …

Novel strategy for developing healthy meat products replacing saturated fat with oleogels

M López-Pedrouso, JM Lorenzo, B Gullón… - Current Opinion in Food …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•To reduce saturated and trans fats is a priority for meat industry.•Edible oleogels
is considered as promising solution to structure vegetable oils.•Waxes, phytosteroles and …

Cultured meat platform developed through the structuring of edible microcarrier-derived microtissues with oleogel-based fat substitute

FC Yen, J Glusac, S Levi, A Zernov, L Baruch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
With the increasing global demand for meat, cultured meat technologies are emerging,
offering more sustainable solutions that aim to evade a future shortage of meat. Here, we …

Organogels: An alternative edible oil-structuring method

Edmund Daniel Co, AG Marangoni - Journal of the American Oil Chemists' …, 2012 - Springer
Structuring liquid oils has become an active area of research in the past decade, mainly due
to pressures to reduce saturated fat intake and eliminate trans fats from our diets. However …

Edible oleogels: An opportunity for fat replacement in foods

AJ Martins, AA Vicente, RL Cunha, MA Cerqueira - Food & function, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The scientific and industrial communities have been giving great attention to the
development of new bio-based materials with potential use in innovative technological …

Advances and prospects in the food applications of pectin hydrogels

P Ishwarya S, P Nisha - Critical reviews in food science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Pectin hydrogel is a soft hydrocolloid with multifaceted utilities in the food sector. Substantial
knowledge acquired on the gelation mechanisms and structure-function relationship of …

Edible oleogels as solid fat alternatives: Composition and oleogelation mechanism implications

L Li, G Liu, O Bogojevic, JN Pedersen… - … Reviews in Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The growing awareness of the adverse health effects of trans‐fats and saturated fats are
driving researchers to seek healthy alternatives. A promising strategy to structure liquid oil …

Oleogels, a promising structured oil for decreasing saturated fatty acid concentrations: Production and food-based applications

H Pehlivanoğlu, M Demirci, OS Toker… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Oils and fats are widely used in the food formulations in order to improve nutritional and
some quality characteristics of food products. Solid fats produced from oils by …