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| Author(s): |
Fabiana Perrechil Bonsanto
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos |
| Defense date: | 2008-04-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Rosiane Lopes da Cunha;
Delia Rita Tapia Blácido;
Flavia Maria Netto;
Jane Selia dos Reis Coimbra
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| Advisor: | Rosiane Lopes da Cunha |
| Abstract | |
Proteins and polysaccharides are widely used in food emulsions as emulsifying and stabilizing agents. However, the mixture of both biopolymers in an aqueous solution can lead to a phase separation process, depending on the conditions of pH and ionic strength. This study showed that multiple emulsions can be prepared by mixing an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion with a mixed biopolymer solution that separates into two phases. Initially, the oil-in-water emulsions (O/W) stabilized by sodium caseinate were studied at different conditions of acidification and high-pressure homogenization. Emulsions stabilized by Na-CN and LBG were also studied. Most of the emulsions showed phase separation due to the creaming mechanism, but this destabilization process was reduced with the increase of system viscosity and the decrease of oil droplet size. The emulsion viscosity was changed by addition of greater oil and biopolymer concentrations and by reduction of pH in direction to protein¿s isoelectric point, while reduction of droplet size was obtained by application of high pressure. The high-pressure homogenization promoted the formation of very small droplets (between 0.39 and 1.5 mm), which favored the production of multiple emulsions. In a second step of this work, a phase diagram was constructed to identify the range of sodium caseinate (Na-CN) and locust bean gum (LBG) concentrations where phase separation occurred and the conditions of pH and ionic strength that led to the incompatibility between them. Thus, in this conditions, the Na-CN ¿ LBG mixed solution formed a two-phase system consisting of a Na-CN ¿ enriched lower phase (W1) and a LBG ¿ enriched upper phase (W2). Water-in-water emulsions (W1/W2 or W2/W1) could be formed by blending incompatible upper and lower phases together at different ratios. Thus, multiple emulsions were prepared by mixing the O/W emulsions homogenized at high-pressure with the same incompatible solutions used to prepare the W/W emulsions. The produced multiple emulsions were the oil-in-water-in water (O/W1/W2) type or the mixed oil-in-water/water-in-water (O/W1 - W2/W1) type depending on the initial biopolymer composition of the system (AU) | |