The freeze-thaw stability of flavor high internal phase emulsion and its application to flavor preservation and 3D printing

Sijie Hu; Feng Xiao; Ming Du; Jinfeng Pan; Liang Song; Chao Wu; Beiwei Zhu; Xianbing Xu

doi:10.1016/j.fochx.2023.100759

The freeze-thaw stability of flavor high internal phase emulsion and its application to flavor preservation and 3D printing

Food Chem X. 2023 Jun 17:19:100759. doi: 10.1016/j.fochx.2023.100759. eCollection 2023 Oct 30.

Authors

Sijie Hu¹, Feng Xiao¹, Ming Du¹, Jinfeng Pan¹, Liang Song¹, Chao Wu¹, Beiwei Zhu¹, Xianbing Xu¹

Affiliation

¹ National Engineering Research Center of Seafood, Collaborative Innovation Center of Provincial and Ministerial Co-construction for Seafood Deep Processing, School of Food Science and Technology, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, PR China.

Abstract

Volatilization of flavor substances may reduce consumers' perception of flavor, and the research on preservation of flavor substances by high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) under freeze-thaw conditions is still blank. Herein, flavor HIPEs prepared by adding more than 15% litsea cubeba oil in the oil phase could be used as food-grade 3D printing inks, and showed better stability after 5 freeze-thaw cycles, which could be interpreted as the reduced ice crystal formation, more stable interface layer, and more flexible gel-like network structure resulting from the protein binding to flavor substances. The constructed HIPEs system in this study could preserve the encapsulated flavor substances perfectly after 5 freeze-thaw cycles. Overall, this study contributes a food-grade 3D printing ink, and provides a new method for the preservation of flavor substances under freezing conditions and expands the application range of flavor HIPEs in food industry.

Keywords: 3D printing; Flavor substance preservation; Freeze–thaw stability; High internal phase emulsion.