Red seaweed: A promising alternative protein source for global food sustainability

P Rawiwan, Y Peng, IGPB Paramayuda… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background With the increase in world population, decreased farmland, and global climate
changes, ensuring adequate food supply to maintain food security is of immediate attention …

Risks and benefits of consuming edible seaweeds

P Cherry, C O'Hara, PJ Magee, EM McSorley… - Nutrition …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recent interest in seaweeds as a source of macronutrients, micronutrients, and bioactive
components has highlighted prospective applications within the functional food and …

Seaweeds as nutraceuticals for health and nutrition

E Shannon, N Abu-Ghannam - Phycologia, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Throughout human history, seaweeds have been used as food, folk remedies, dyes, and
mineral-rich fertilisers. Seaweeds as nutraceuticals or functional foods with dietary benefits …

Seaweed's bioactive candidate compounds to food industry and global food security

A Leandro, D Pacheco, J Cotas, JC Marques, L Pereira… - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
The world population is continuously growing, so it is important to keep producing food in a
sustainable way, especially in a way that is nutritious and in a sufficient quantity to overcome …

[HTML][HTML] Bioactive peptides and carbohydrates from seaweed for food applications: Natural occurrence, isolation, purification, and identification

T Lafarga, FG Acién-Fernández, M Garcia-Vaquero - Algal research, 2020 - Elsevier
Macroalgae or seaweed are relative un-explored and promising sources of novel molecules
for the food industry including peptides and carbohydrates for their use as functional foods …

Extraction of proteins from two marine macroalgae, Ulva sp. and Gracilaria sp., for food application, and evaluating digestibility, amino acid composition and …

M Kazir, Y Abuhassira, A Robin, O Nahor, J Luo… - Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
With rising global population and decreasing available land and fresh water resources, the
oceans provide an attractive domain for sourcing nutrients. The marine macroalgae Ulva sp …

Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation

SL Holdt, S Kraan - Journal of applied phycology, 2011 - Springer
Seaweed is more than the wrap that keeps rice together in sushi. Seaweed biomass is
already used for a wide range of other products in food, including stabilising agents …

Emergent sources of prebiotics: Seaweeds and microalgae

MF de Jesus Raposo, AMMB De Morais… - Marine drugs, 2016 - mdpi.com
In recent years, scientists have become aware that human microbiota, in general, and gut
microbiota, in particular, play a major role in human health and diseases, such as obesity …

Seaweeds: A sustainable functional food for complementary and alternative therapy

S Mohamed, SN Hashim, HA Rahman - Trends in food science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Edible seaweeds are rich in bioactive antioxidants, soluble dietary fibers, proteins, minerals,
vitamins, phytochemicals, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Although previously the …

Seaweed components as potential modulators of the gut microbiota

E Shannon, M Conlon, M Hayes - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Macroalgae, or seaweeds, are a rich source of components which may exert beneficial
effects on the mammalian gut microbiota through the enhancement of bacterial diversity and …