Divalent cations are antagonistic to survivability of freeze-dried probiotics encapsulated in cross-linked alginate

• Main Authors: Tan, Li Ling, Sampathkumar, Kaarunya, Wong, Jia Hui, Loo, Joachim Say Chye
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Probiotics; Delivery
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144327; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/XPJT5P
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Alginate encapsulation is amongst the most studied probiotic encapsulation formulations in the literature, preferred for its low toxicity, low cost and ability to protect entrapped probiotics against acidic pH. Despite extensive academic studies, there has been little commercial translation of algin...