{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhao D"],"funding":["Taishan Scholars Program.The National Key Research and Development Program of China","Key R&D Plan of Shandong Province (Major Science and Technology Innovation Project)"],"pagination":["594"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12896531"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["In this study, sodium alginate-chitosan composite microspheres (S-C Ms) were prepared by ionic gelation to encapsulate <i>Ziziphus jujuba</i> pulp from wild jujube pulp. The effects of sodium alginate (SA) concentration, chitosan (CS) concentration, and core-to-wall ratio on encapsulation efficiency (EE%) and loading capacity (LC%) were systematically investigated. The results showed that both EE% and LC% were maximized when the SA concentration was 2.0% (<i>w</i>/<i>v</i>) and the CS concentration was 1.5% (<i>w</i>/<i>v</i>). The FTIR and XRD analyses confirmed the successful encapsulation of a phenolic-rich extract from <i>Z. jujuba</i> pulp (PRE) and its transformation into an amorphous state, while the SEM observations revealed that the composite microspheres possessed a well-defined "],"journal":["Foods (Basel, Switzerland)"],"pubmed_title":["Preparation, Characterization, and In Vitro Digestion Behavior of Alginate-Chitosan Microspheres Loaded with &lt;i&gt;Ziziphus jujuba&lt;/i&gt; Pulp."],"pmcid":["PMC12896531"],"funding_grant_id":["2024YFD2100704","2023CXGC010717"],"pubmed_authors":["Chen N","Yu M","Wang F","Zhang L","Rong Z","Zhang Q","Dai Y","Liu X","Xie F","Zhao D","Ju M","Zhang B","Fan B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Preparation, Characterization, and In Vitro Digestion Behavior of Alginate-Chitosan Microspheres Loaded with &lt;i&gt;Ziziphus jujuba&lt;/i&gt; Pulp.","description":"In this study, sodium alginate-chitosan composite microspheres (S-C Ms) were prepared by ionic gelation to encapsulate <i>Ziziphus jujuba</i> pulp from wild jujube pulp. The effects of sodium alginate (SA) concentration, chitosan (CS) concentration, and core-to-wall ratio on encapsulation efficiency (EE%) and loading capacity (LC%) were systematically investigated. The results showed that both EE% and LC% were maximized when the SA concentration was 2.0% (<i>w</i>/<i>v</i>) and the CS concentration was 1.5% (<i>w</i>/<i>v</i>). The FTIR and XRD analyses confirmed the successful encapsulation of a phenolic-rich extract from <i>Z. jujuba</i> pulp (PRE) and its transformation into an amorphous state, while the SEM observations revealed that the composite microspheres possessed a well-defined ","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026 Feb","modification":"2026-07-08T03:10:59.498Z","creation":"2026-07-08T03:08:35.908Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12896531","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41683181"],"doi":["10.3390/foods15030594"]}}