Murici (Byrsonima crassifolia) is a fruit that has great therapeutic potential due to the presence of lutein, a carotenoid valued in the food supplementation market focused on eye health. Due to its riskiness, it became necessary to apply industrial processes that enable the increase of shelf life, the diversification of use and consumption, the addition of value and the expansion of the murici market, with the use of clean technologies associated with the incentive to the bioeconomy. Thus, the work entitled "Application of supercritical technology in the development of a food supplement based on murici extract (Byrsonima crassifolia)" was developed with the purpose of studying and applying murici extracts, extracted and nanoencapsulated via extraction with supercritical CO2, in food supplement. For this, the first
step was to develop a study on obtaining extracts of murici pulp by supercritical technology. The best conditions for supercritical extraction of murici pulp were determined, with CO2 and CO2+ethanol, through variations in pressure (15 to 49 MPa), temperature (323.15 to 343.15 K), density (654 to 946 kg/m3 ), CO2 flow (8.85×10−5 to 1.33×10−4 kg / s) and dynamic extraction time (3600 to 10800 s), where the global yield isotherms, the bioactive compounds present in the extracts were obtained and in the extraction beds, such as: lutein, fatty acids, triglycerides, phenolic compounds and flavonoids. Functional quality, antioxidant capacity/activity, and cytotoxic and cytoprotective effects were also evaluated. The study of
supercritical extraction made it possible to obtain non-toxic oils with a high content of lutein, consisting of long chain triglycerides rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as omega 3 and 9, and with antioxidant, antihypercholesterolemic, anti-atherosclerogenic, anti-thrombogenic and
cytoprotective activities, where the best extraction condition was obtained at 343.15 K/ 49 MPa/ 900 kg/m3 . It also made it possible to obtain non-toxic ethanol extracts from defatted pulp, a by-product in the food industry, containing lutein, phenolic compounds, flavonoids and antioxidant activity, where the best extraction condition was obtained at 343.15 K/ 22 MPa/ 775 kg/m3 . Due to the cytoprotective effect, murici oil was used for the production of particles through the process of supercritical fluid of emulsions extraction (SFEE), where it was possible to produce murici oil nanoparticles with good concentration/retention of lutein, reduced size of particles and with high stability, where the best formulation of the starting emulsions was obtained with the thickener xanthan gum, with the emulsifier csgel and in a
concentration of 6 mg / mL of murici oil, and the best condition of the SFEE process was the 8 MPa, 313.15 K, static period of 3600 s and dynamic period of 18000 s. From this, it was possible to obtain powdered SFEE emulsions of murici oil by lyophilization and spray drying with humidity, water activities, particle sizes, stability and lutein levels suitable for use in food supplements loaded in vegetable capsules. Vegetable capsules loaded with powdered SFEE emulation of murici oil by lyophilization and spray drying were within the loading standards for commercialization, where it was possible to obtain dietary supplements of murici oil, rich in lutein. Therefore, the present thesis showed that it is possible to use supercritical technology in the murici-based food supplements production chain, to facilitate the access and stability of the compounds to which the murici's therapeutic potentials are attributed. This work verticalized the importance of research on the functional effect of murici and on the use of supercritical technology, which contributed to the development of the region's bieconomics and new products by science, technology and food engineering, with a great return to society
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