“…Curcumin [1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,6-hepadiene-3,5-dione], a natural polyphenol, extracted from the rhizome of Curcuma longa, has been reported to have a wide range of biological activities, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer properties (Kaur, Kumar, & Mehta 2015;Liu, Cai, Jiang, Wu, & Le 2016). Nonetheless, the application of curcumin to food products has been limited due to their low solubility in water (11 ng/mL), rapid degradation in aqueous systems due to oxidative processes, pH and temperature changes during manufacturing or storage of the food products, and their effect on the organoleptic properties of foods (Plaza-Oliver et al 2015;Zhao et al 2012). The need to overcome these limitations (from curcumin and other lipophilic compounds) has made that the food and beverage industry considered the use of encapsulation systems at the nanoscale.…”