Behavior of lactoferrin nanohydrogels incorporating curcumin as model compound into food simulants

Oscar L. Ramos acknowledge his Post-Doctoral grant (SFRH/BPD/80766/2011) to the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal). This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01- 0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. Joao F. Araujo acknowledge the Escola de Ciencias and Centro de Engenharia Biologica from Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) for their support, under the scope of the Biophysics and Bionanosystems Master program.