Obtenção e aplicação de matérias-primas vegetais no desenvolvimento de nanoemulsões

Abstract

The Amazon biome presents immense richness in its flora, highlighting the fruit species for presenting varied colors, flavors, and aromas. Also, they contain bioactive compounds, which can be used in the development of new sustainable products in several sectors such as food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic. However, despite the great biodiversity, many fruit species are consumed as food, but little directed to bioprospecting. Within this context, there are munguba (Pachira aquatica Aublet) and bacaba (Oenocarpus bacaba Mart). Munguba fruits contain numerous seeds inside, presenting a high content of butter, which provides nutrition and emollience, in addition to presenting bioactive compounds with antioxidant action that can provide quality for the product and the consumer. The bacaba fruits, on the other hand, are rich in oil with characteristics similar to olive oil and have a violet colored peel. The bacaba peel is rich in antioxidant substances such as anthocyanins, which are important in the prevention of some diseases such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease, and skin aging. Therefore, its applications in the development of new products are attractive to the industrial sector and the consumer market, which increasingly requires efficiency, quality, safety and sustainability. Moreover, nanoemulsified systems enable some advantages such as the incorporation of hydrophilic and lipophilic substances, lower toxicity, greater bioavailability of active compounds and prolonged release, in addition to masking unpleasant organoleptic characteristics. The development of new products brings together important stages such as the study of raw materials, the creation of the formula, the development and quality control, and potential activities. Thus, bringing together biodiversity and bioprospecting in the product innovation sector provides appreciation of the environment, sustainability, application of technologies and formulations with multifunctional actions and less toxic potential.