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The front cover of this issue presents a review article from Uri Lesmes and co-workers at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, ‘Development of oral food-grade delivery systems: Current knowledge and future challenges’. There has, in recent years, been an increasing interest in the development of new and efficient oral food delivery systems as tools to prevent disease and promote human health and well-being, and although considered to be still in its infancy, this promising field of research is likely to infiltrate into real products through rational design. In order for such efforts to materialize into real products some challenges still need to be met and are discussed in this review which summarises the key concepts of food delivery systems, their characterization and their evaluation. In particular, evaluation of their performance within the human gastrointestinal tract is discussed.
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Development of oral food-grade delivery systems: Current knowledge and future challenges
Revital Cohen Benshitrit, Carmit Shani Levi, Sharon Levi Tal, Eyal Shimoni and Uri Lesmes
Food Funct., 2012, 3, 10-21 DOI: 10.1039/C1FO10068H
