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Research Article

Preparation, release and physicochemical characterisation of ethyl butyrate and hexanal inclusion complexes with β- and γ-cyclodextrin

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Pages 711-718 | Received 16 Mar 2015, Accepted 29 Jun 2015, Published online: 31 Aug 2015
 

Abstract

Complexes of ethyl butyrate and hexanal encapsulated by β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) were prepared by coprecipitation, and gas chromatography was used to quantity the flavour compounds in the complexes. The ethyl butyrate–γ-CD complex had the highest inclusion ratio (12.20%) followed by the ethyl butyrate-β-CD, hexanal-β-CD and hexanal-γ-CD complexes (11.29, 4.41 and 3.33%, respectively). Release experiments were performed under different relative humidities (RH 93, 75 and 52%) and temperatures (4 and 25 °C). The flavour release behaviours of the complexes were described by the Avrami equation. The rate of flavour release was enhanced with both increasing temperature and RH, although the effect of RH was stronger. Physicochemical characterisation using FT-IR, XRD, DSC and SEM analyses demonstrated that crystalline complexes were formed. Both β-CD and γ-CD were able to encapsulate ethyl butyrate and hexanal, and lower RH and temperature were more suitable for the storage of these complexes.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the staff of the University of Science and Technology of China for their support and comments during the preparation of this manuscript.

Declaration of interest

This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31271960).

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