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Food structuring using microfluidics: Updated progress in fundamental principles and structure types

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Abstract

As an interdisciplinary manufacturing technique, microfluidics has attracted great attention in fields such as food structuring, chemical analysis, biomedicine, and biological testing. In particular, significant efforts have been recently made to design food structures via microfluidics, starting with its fundamental principles, thus contributing to developing next-generation, high-quality food products with satisfactory properties and attributes. This review first introduces the fundamental principles of microfluidic systems, and then focuses on their applications in the fabrication of different food structures, including emulsions (via shear-driven, spontaneous, or wettability-controlled emulsification), foams, microparticles (biopolymers-based and liposomes), and microgels (induced by temperature or ions). The upscaling strategies for microfluidic devices and challenges for application in the food industry are also reviewed. Despite such advances, it is still vital to further understand the flowing, droplet formation, and structuring of multi-component food matrices and the related developments of cost-effective microfluidic devices to meet practical requirements.


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Author(s): Qiao D, Hu W, Wang Z, Xie F, Zhang B, Jiang F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Food Engineering

Year: 2024

Volume: 360

Print publication date: 01/01/2024

Online publication date: 24/08/2023

Acceptance date: 19/08/2023

Date deposited: 07/09/2023

ISSN (print): 0260-8774

ISSN (electronic): 1873-5770

Publisher: Elsevier

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2023.111703

DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2023.111703

Data Access Statement: No data was used for the research described in the article.


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Key R & D Projects of Hubei Province (2022BBA004 and 2022BBA052)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32172240)

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