Recent agricultural, food, and pharmaceutical research focuses attention on the development of delivery systems that can encapsulate, protect, and deliver natural compounds. Nanoemulsions are recognized as the best delivery systems for natural-origin nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, having many agri-food applications.

Bio-based Nanoemulsions for Agri-Food Applications provides information on food-grade nanoemulsions and their application in agriculture and the food industry. This book covers concepts, techniques, current advances, and challenges in the formulation of the application of emerging food grade nanoemulsions. Particular attention is placed on food-grade nanoemulsion production methods and components used, such as plant/microbial products, biosurfactants, cosurfactants, emulsifiers, ligand targets, and bioactive/functional ingredients. This is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and food scientists who are looking to understand how nanoemulsions are being used in the agri-food sector.

• Provides an overview of a range of bio-based nanoemulsions used in the agrifood sector
• Explores how nanotechnology improves the properties of bio-based emulsions
• Assesses the major challenges of manufacturing nanoemulsions at an industrial scale

Section 1: Biobased nanoemulsion: Formulation, Evaluation and application1. Green and food-grade nanoemulsions: A novel nutraceutical and phytochemical delivery concept2. Green nanoemulsions: Components, formulation, and techniques of characterization3. Natural compound based interfacial stabilization of nanoemulsions4. Toxicity, biological fate, bioavailability of nanoemulsion formulations5. Nanoencapsulation techniques of bioactive compounds for agro-food applications6. Non-Ionic Green Nanoemulsion Nanoinsecticides/ Nanopesticides7. Micro/Nanoemulsions: Antifungal and Mycotoxin Inhibitory Activity8. Spontaneous emulsification techniques of green/food grade nanoemulsionSection 2: Green nanoemulsions & Agricultural application9. Plant essential oil/extract-based nanoemulsions for agriculture application10. Formulation and delivery of natural compound green nanoemulsion pesticides11. Formulation Green nanoemulsions for controlling agriculture insects12. Botanical Green Insecticidal Nanoemulsions13. Green nanoemulsion insecticides: safety, toxicity, and applications14. Green nanoemulsions: Potential nanofungicides of plant disease control15. Current trends and practices in encapsulation of bioinoculant and its applications16. Plant essential oil biofungicide nanoemulsions17. Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria nanoemulsions and their applications18. Postharvest applications of natural compound/green nanoemulsions in Fruits19. Antipathogenic effects of plant essential oil nanoemulsionsSection 3: Food grade nanoemulsions exploration in food industries20. Green/food grade nanoemulsion: An arsenal for controlling food spoilage causatives/pathogens21. Food physicochemical and functional property improvement by plant phytocompound loaded nanoparticles22. Methods of food-grade nanoemulsion formulation, fabrication, and characterisation23. Application of bio-based emulsifiers in the formulation of food-grade nanoemulsions24. Candelilla wax nanoemulsions: extraction and delivery of natural plant-based antioxidants, nutraceuticals and organoleptic/sensory determinants25. Food grade nanoemulsions in the delivery of probiotics and prebiotics26. Use of essential-oil-loaded nanoemulsions in active food packaging27. Recent trends on composite nanoemulsions for food packaging28. Nanocarrier based formulations: Concepts and Applications29. Food grade nanoemulsions for effective delivery of vitamins30. Regulatory aspects, Global nanoemulsion market & Business opportunities for start-ups