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Record W4407397952 · doi:10.1016/j.afres.2025.100764

Microencapsulation of fermented wild blueberry to improve the stability of (poly)phenols

2025· article· en· W4407397952 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Food Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicMicroencapsulation and Drying Processes
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPhenolsFermentationFood scienceChemistryChromatographyOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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• Wild blueberry bioactives have poor stability and bioaccessibility. • Microbial fermentation enhanced bioactive constituents of wild blueberries • Controversial maltodextrin partially replaced with inulin in bioactive microencapsulation • Novel microencapsulation enhanced the stability of bioactive constituents • Dual fermentation and microencapsulation generated novel functional food ingredients Dual fermentation augments the diversity and efficacy of wild blueberry bioactives, while microencapsulation ensures their stability and marketability. Here, we have subsequently fermented wild blueberries using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Komagataeibacter spp. and microencapsulated the end products using different prebiotic fibers and plant proteins as alternatives to controversial maltodextrin. Biotransformation generated health-promoting postbiotics including (poly)phenol metabolites and short-chain fatty acids. The microparticle formulation comprising inulin and maltodextrin (1:1 w/w) exhibited desirable properties similar to conventional microencapsulation products including moisture content (6.07 ± 1.3%), hygroscopicity (7.11 ± 0.4%), particle size (36.9 ± 12 μm), encapsulation efficiency (76.7 ± 3%), and loading capacity (0.348 ± 0.08%). The novel microparticles displayed robust stability under UV light exposure and storage at 4, 20, and 35 °C compared to non-encapsulated fermented wild blueberries. In conclusion, dual fermentation and prebiotic inulin-based microencapsulation pave the way for innovative, safe, and potentially health-enhancing novel food ingredients.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.177

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it