Sugar-based emulsifiers: Sustainable molecules with great potential

IF 2.4 3区化学 Q3 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Carbohydrate Research Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI:10.1016/j.carres.2025.109504

Abbas Abdulameer Salman

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The demand for foods, cosmetics, personal hygiene products, cleaning products, and pharmaceutical products is increasing globally. These common products are widely used in homes and workplaces. On the other hand, increasing production has raised global warming and environmental issues, necessitating the finding of new sustainable solutions. As a result, industries are attempting to discover new bioactive ingredients from nature as alternatives to synthetic ones. This review covers some of the main categories of natural sugar-based surfactants (sugar derivatives and alkyl polyglucosides) as prospective emulsifiers, their preparation methods, and potential applications. Various production routes for mono- and polysaccharide-based emulsifiers and their advantages for the industry are highlighted. The readers will be able to approach the synthesis of sugar-based emulsifiers and their use in the food, pharmaceutical, personal care, and cosmetic industries. The synthetic methods use natural ingredients to generate emulsifiers with desired biodegradability and ecotoxicology profiles. In this review, we have compiled and described the present synthetic methodologies for sugar-based emulsifiers and their applications in various fields.

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糖基乳化剂：具有巨大潜力的可持续分子

全球对食品、化妆品、个人卫生用品、清洁产品和药品的需求正在增加。这些常见产品广泛应用于家庭和工作场所。另一方面，产量的增加引发了全球变暖和环境问题，需要寻找新的可持续解决方案。因此，工业界正试图从自然界中发现新的生物活性成分，作为合成成分的替代品。本文综述了天然糖基表面活性剂（糖衍生物和烷基多糖苷）作为乳化剂的主要类别、制备方法和潜在应用。重点介绍了单基和多糖类乳化剂的各种生产路线及其在工业上的优势。读者将能够接近糖基乳化剂的合成及其在食品，制药，个人护理和化妆品行业的应用。合成方法使用天然成分生成具有理想生物降解性和生态毒理学特征的乳化剂。本文综述了目前糖基乳化剂的合成方法及其在各个领域的应用。

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Carbohydrate Research 化学-生化与分子生物学

CiteScore

5.00

自引率

3.20%

发文量

183

审稿时长

3.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Carbohydrate Research publishes reports of original research in the following areas of carbohydrate science: action of enzymes, analytical chemistry, biochemistry (biosynthesis, degradation, structural and functional biochemistry, conformation, molecular recognition, enzyme mechanisms, carbohydrate-processing enzymes, including glycosidases and glycosyltransferases), chemical synthesis, isolation of natural products, physicochemical studies, reactions and their mechanisms, the study of structures and stereochemistry, and technological aspects. Papers on polysaccharides should have a "molecular" component; that is a paper on new or modified polysaccharides should include structural information and characterization in addition to the usual studies of rheological properties and the like. A paper on a new, naturally occurring polysaccharide should include structural information, defining monosaccharide components and linkage sequence. Papers devoted wholly or partly to X-ray crystallographic studies, or to computational aspects (molecular mechanics or molecular orbital calculations, simulations via molecular dynamics), will be considered if they meet certain criteria. For computational papers the requirements are that the methods used be specified in sufficient detail to permit replication of the results, and that the conclusions be shown to have relevance to experimental observations - the authors'' own data or data from the literature. Specific directions for the presentation of X-ray data are given below under Results and "discussion".