Table 5.

Results of evaluation of Formulations F1– F9.

Evaluation test	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7	F8	F9
Water content (%)	3.30 ± 0.22	1.06 ± 0.056	1.647 ± 0.175	1.11 ± 0.046	1.66 ± 0.11	2.940 ± 0.184	1.180 ± 0.062	1.250 ± 0.075	1.350 ± 0.053
Flowability	Poor	Excellent	good	Excellent	good	poor	excellent	good	good
Bulk density (g/cm3)	0.384 ± 0.010	0.299 ± 0.004	0.353 ± 0.004	0.295 ± 0.003	0.292 ± 0.004	0.327 ± 0.003	0.300 ± 0.002	0.303 ± 0.005	32.953 ± 1.517
Tapped density (g/cm3)	0.430 ± 0.005	0.314 ± 0.003	0.411 ± 0.005	0.319 ± 0.002	0.328 ± 0.007	0.397 ± 0.010	0.318 ± 0.003	0.328 ± 0.007	0.343 ± 0.008
Angle of repose	45.637 ± 1.737	31.607 ± 1.266	36.670 ± 1.650	29.163 ± 1.053	33.580 ± 1.396	41.533 ± 1.201	29.903 ± 00.658	30.707 ± 0.445	32.953 ± 1.517
Carr's index	10.644 ± 2.004	4.775 ± 0.990	14.167 ± 1.781	5.225 ± 0.583	11.073 ± 2.448	17.734 ± 1.384	5.751 ± 1.607	7.476 ± 0.939	10.081 ± 0.601
Hausner ratio	1.119 ± 0.025	1.050 ± 0.011	1.165 ± 0.024	1.055 ± 0.006	1.125 ± 0.031	1.216 ± 0.020	1.061 ± 0.018	1.081 ± 0.011	1.112 ± 0.007
Encapsulation Efficiency (%)	81.703 ± 2.297	96.250 ± 0.789	88.610 ± 1.127	96.893 ± 0.883	89.237 ± 3.373	84.667 ± 3.607	95.430 ± 0.598	93.050 ± 0.861	92.003 ± 2.317
Production yield (%)	81.78	91.22	87.34	94.31	83.12	88.16	93.25	94.33	91.75

*Indicates a significantly different value at p‹0.05. Results represent the average of 3 recorded reading for each test.