Abstract: The present invention is related to the inclusion of dehydrated and encapsulated functional additives formulations in food matrices. For the encapsulation of the additives, molten hydrophobic mixtures of fatty acids and longchain saponified fatty acids were used under simple encapsulation techniques that require minimum residence times and early solidification. These specific mixtures of coating materials and the manufacturing process confer physical and chemical resistance to the formulated additives, which allows their use as functional ingredients in industrial processes, such as the production of balanced foods, concentrated foods, dry or wet foods, for humans or animals; where extrusion, baking or pelletizing processes are used, without the additives losing their viability and activity.