March 28/West Lafayette, Ind./The Brazil Times -- A Purdue University food scientist has developed a way to encase nutritional supplements in food-based products so that one day, consumers might be able to sprinkle vitamins, antioxidants and other beneficial compounds right onto their meals.

Srinivas Janaswamy, a research assistant professor of food science, said many of the nutraceuticals, or nutritional supplements, added to foods today are not structurally stable.