The invention belongs to the field of preparation of
plant-derived functional materials, and particularly relates to
puerarin-
pueraria starch-Span80 gel beads as well as a preparation method and application of the
puerarin-
pueraria starch-Span80 gel beads. The method is realized by the following steps: firstly, weighing
pueraria starch, and dispersing the pueraria starch in
ultrapure water containing
sodium alginate to obtain a gelatinized pueraria
starch solution; adding a surfactant into the gelatinized pueraria
starch solution, stirring, dropwise adding the
puerarin-
ethanol solution, and continuously stirring after dropwise adding; and sucking the supernate, dripping into a
calcium lactate solution, curing into balls, and performing vacuum
freeze drying to obtain the product. The puerarin-embedded gel bead prepared by the invention has pores on the surface, and the structure is of a porous three-dimensional
network structure, so that the adsorption and embedding of subsequent active substances are facilitated; a texture result shows that in addition to elasticity, the
hardness, cohesiveness, gelatinization,
chewiness and resilience of the gel beads before freeze-
drying are as follows: puerarin-pueraria starch-Span80 gel beads > puerarin-pueraria starch gel beads > pueraria starch gel beads; and the swelling property is good and can reach 6.94 + / -6.34%.