Table 1.

Some complementary examples regarding solid particles used as stabilizing agents.

Stabilizing Agents	Chemical Composition	Applications	Particle Size	Occurrences	Ref.
Cellulose	(C6H10O5)n	Cellulose is used in the food, biomedical, and pharmaceutical areas, as a drug and cosmetic delivery system, also used in wound healing and dressing membranes. Cellulose nanocrystals can be used as drug carriers in the pharmaceutical industry, paper industry, food industry, and support matrix for catalysts.	Lower than 38 μm	It is produced by plants, fungi, and some types of bacteria.	[103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112]
Starch	(C6H10O5)n	It is used for delivery systems of pharmaceutical ingredients and bioactive food ingredients, enzyme inhibitor, and adsorption agent.	>49.8 µm	Starch is found in seeds, roots, tubers, and bulbs of vegetables.	[113,114,115,116,117]
Chitin and Chitosan	(C8H13O5N)n and C56H103N9O39	The potential for multidimensional application, ranging from applications in the food field such as nutrition, biotechnology, materials science, drugs and pharmaceuticals, agriculture and environmental protection, and gene therapy as well.	Approximately 6.9 μm	Chitin is the most commonly found aminopolysaccharide in nature, being part of the exoskeleton of crustaceans, insects, and the cell walls of fungi, and chitosan is included in the enzymatic or chemical deacetylation of chitin.	[118,119,120,121]
Polylactic acid and polyglycolic acid	C5H8O5	Bioplastics become attractive materials for biological and medical applications, can be used for implants and other surgical applications such as sutures, and in regenerative surgery implants.	Approximately 125 µm	Polyester obtained from the polymerization of lactic acid, produced by fermentation or chemical synthesis	[122,123]
Silica	SiO2	Biomedical applications have the potential to be used in the diagnosis and therapy of many diseases.	In between 28 and 500 nm	The volcanic and sedimentary origin silica occurrences	[124,125,126,127]