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Revista Cubana de Farmacia

Print version ISSN 0034-7515On-line version ISSN 1561-2988

Abstract

LOPEZ HERNANDEZ, Orestes Darío. Microencapsulation of oily substances by aspersion drying. Rev Cubana Farm [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.3, pp.381-389. ISSN 0034-7515.

To administer oral oily compounds such as lipid extracts of natural origin, volatile essential oils and liposoluble vitamins, it is necessary that presentation be in soft capsulae. An alternative to this form of presentation is the microencapsulation being a solution to modify the physical state and to achieve a solid form for its oral administration. This alternative allows masking the smell and the unpleasant flavor of oral products ant also to protect the oxidation of fatty acids present. The aspersion dry is one of the more used methods at industrial scale to microcapsulae achievement. Because of its increasing use in pharmaceutical industry in present paper is gathered the art of state in the use of this technology for oily substances microencapsulation.

Keywords : Microencapsulation; aspersion dry; oily substances.

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