“…LAE and HyA are largely expected to combine ionically because both compounds have been reported to form stable ionic complexes when they enter in contact with diverse counter-ions. Thus LAE is known to interact positively with the anionic polysaccharides present in the food (Asker, Weiss, & McClements, 2009;Loeffler et al, 2014), and complexes of HyA with a diversity of organocationic compounds have been also described (Battistini et al, 2017;Bračič, Hansson, Pérez, Zemljič, & Kogej, 2015;Chytil, Trojan, & Kovalenko, 2016;Tolentino, Alla, Martínez de Ilarduya, & Muñoz-Guerra, 2013). Complexes of LAE with poly(-glutamic acid) (LAE•PGGA) with antibacterial properties have been recently described by us (Gamarra-Montes, Missagia, Morató, & Muñoz-Guerra, 2017).…”