
Bioactive Seaweeds for Food Applications
Natural Ingredients for Healthy Diets
Description
Key Features
- Discusses the use of bioactive seaweed substances as a new class of food ingredients
- Outlines the use of seaweed as gelling agents used for food restructuring, coating and encapsulation
- Systematically explores new ingredients and the bioactive substances that are both environmentally friendly and highly beneficial to human health
Readership
R&D personnel in food industry, students majoring in food science and technology
Table of Contents
1. Seaweed bioresources
2. Bioactive seaweed substances
3. Seaweed derived polysaccharides
4. Seaweed derived sulfated polysaccharides
5. Seaweed derived carotenoids
6. Omega-3 fatty acids from microalgae
7. Seaweed derived oligosaccharides
8. Seaweed derived enzymes
9. Seaweed based marine functional foods
10. Applications of bioactive seaweed substances in functional food products
11. Phycolloids as functional food ingredients
12. Phycolloids as food restructuring agents
13. Phycolloids as food coating and encapsulation agents
14. Antioxidant properties of seaweed derived substances
15. Seaweed derived marine nutraceuticals
16. Fucoidan and immunity enhancement
17. Marine hydrocolloids for the reduction of blood fat, blood sugar and blood pressure
18. Absorption of heavy metal ions by alginate
19. Slimming effect of bioactive seaweed substances
20. Seaweeds and cancer prevention
Product details
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: January 16, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128133125
- eBook ISBN: 9780128133132
About the Editor
Yimin Qin
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