NANOTECHNOLOGY-BASED STRATEGIES FOR NUTRACEUTICALS: A REVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

摘要

With time people are becoming more health conscious and demanding for safer and healthier food products. There is an annual growth of 7% in the nutraceutical industry and by the year 2020 it is projected to be worth 35 billion with Asia Pacific growing the fastest. Nutraceuticals utilizematerials that have potential to control many diseases, but due to the fact that a lot of biotransformations take place within the body, the compounds are unable to show effects as expected. Recent progress in the field of nutraceutical development has been extended from microsize tonanodimensions. A current research scenario indicates that nanotization strategies of drugs have served as a potential approach to enhance the solubility and bioavailability and to develop a robust formulation. This review focuses on issues associated with conventional nutraceuticals, currentnutraceutical market scenario worldwide, and various nanoscale formulation approaches like liposomes, nanoemulsions, nanocrystals, lipid and polymeric nanoparticles have been discussed in detail to obtain an insight into recent developments in nutraceutical segment.