Research Article

Optimization of Wall Materials for Astaxanthin Powder Production from Shrimp Shell Extract Using Simplex Lattice Mixture Design

Table 5

The effect of type and concentration of wall compounds on chemical properties of encapsulated powders.

Wall compositionEncapsulation efficiency (EE, %)Astaxanthin content (AST, μg/g)DPPH radical scavenging power (DPPHsc, %)
MD7Hi-Cap 100MD20

05050bcbc
50050eef
00100ffh
50500eef
10000ffg
16.6766.6716.67cbcc
10000ege
01000ffh
00100eef
16.6716.6766.67bbb
66.6716.6716.67ccdd
33.3333.3333.33aaa
50500dde
01000gfj

(standard deviation) within a column with the same lowercase letters are not significantly different at .