Research Progress on Microcapsulation Technology and Its Application in Food

Recently,a trend in food industry is the consistent rising in the demand for functional food. As one of the most important health promotion factors,probiotics have witnessed a huge increase in their products worldwide. Microcapsulation technology has been wildly used in food industry attributed to its ability to provide protection for probiotics during food processing and storage and improve the survival rate of probiotics in products. However,there are still significant hurdles to the successful application of probiotics microcapsules in food industry,which is mainly due to the fact that somecharacteristics of microcapsules appear to be in conflict with the requirements of food products. Based on this situation,the aim of this review was to give a critical overview of the current researches and the application of probiotics microcapsules in food industry,and the future development was also prospected.