Seaweed Proteins: A Step towards Sustainability?

Nutrients, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(8), P. 1123 - 1123

Published: April 10, 2024

This review delves into the burgeoning field of seaweed proteins as promising alternative sources protein. With global demand escalating and concerns over traditional protein sources' sustainability ethics, emerges a viable solution, offering high content minimal environmental impacts. Exploring nutritional composition, extraction methods, functional properties, potential health benefits proteins, this provides comprehensive understanding. Seaweed contains essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants. Its ranges from 11% to 32% dry weight, making it valuable for diverse dietary preferences, including vegetarian vegan diets. Furthermore, underscores advantages production compared sources. cultivation requires resources, mitigating issues like ocean acidification. As specific types, methodologies, highlights versatility in various food products, plant-based meats, dairy alternatives, supplements. Additionally, discusses associated with such their unique acid profile bioactive compounds. Overall, aims provide insights proteins' applications role addressing needs sustainably.

Language: Английский

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Exploring algal diversity for enhanced nutrition: Implications for human health and sustainability

Algal Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 86, P. 103907 - 103907

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

Language: Английский

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Recent Advances in Edible Seaweeds: Ingredients of Functional Food Products, Potential Applications, and Food Safety Challenges

Food and Bioprocess Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 6, 2025

Language: Английский

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Seaweed in the Diet as a Source of Bioactive Metabolites and a Potential Natural Immunity Booster: A Comprehensive Review

Pharmaceuticals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 18(3), P. 367 - 367

Published: March 4, 2025

Seaweed plays an essential role in the survival of marine life, provides habitats and helps nutrient recycling. It is rich valuable nutritious compounds such as pigments, proteins, polysaccharides, minerals, vitamins, omega-rich oils, secondary metabolites, fibers sterols. Pigments like fucoxanthin astaxanthin polysaccharides laminarin, fucoidan, galactan ulvan possess immune-modulatory immune-enhancing properties. Moreover, they show antioxidative, antidiabetic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, anti-obesity, antimicrobial, anticoagulation anti-aging properties can prevent diseases Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s cardiovascular diseases. Though seaweed frequently consumed by Eastern Asian countries China, Japan, Korea has gained attention Western recent years due to its nutritional properties, consumption on a global scale very limited because lack awareness. Thus, incorporate into diet make it familiar functional food, issues large-scale cultivation, processing, consumer acceptance development seaweed-based food products need be addressed. This review intended give brief overview present status seaweed, value bioactive metabolites foods for human health owing immunity-boosting potential. Further, source sustainable prospects along with are discussed this review.

Language: Английский

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Efficacy of seaweed extracts on the germination of commercially important crops Triticum aestivum (wheat) and Vigna radiata (mung bean)

Journal of Applied Phycology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Seaweed organic compounds source of hydrocolloids and sustainable food packaging: properties, application, and future direction

Discover Food, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: Oct. 3, 2024

Language: Английский

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Phytochemical Composition and Bioactivities of Some Hydrophytes: Antioxidant, Antiparasitic, Antibacterial, and Anticancer Properties and Mechanisms

Plants, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(15), P. 2148 - 2148

Published: Aug. 2, 2024

Few researches have explored the production of pharmaceuticals from aquatic plants. Therefore, this study explored, for first time, phytochemical composition and bioactivities ten Aquatic plant shoots various Nile River canals were collected, dried, ground aqueous extract preparation. Phytochemical antioxidant capacity assessed using DPPH assays. Extracts tested antiparasitic, antibacterial, anti-biofilm, anticancer activities through standard in vitro assays, measuring IC50 values, evaluating mechanisms action, including cell viability high-content screening The results showed that plants rich pharmaceutical compounds. these extracts exceeded vitamin C. promising antiparasitic activity against pathogens like Opisthorchis viverrini Plasmodium falciparum, with values between 0.7 2.5 µg/mL. They also demonstrated low MICs pathogenic bacteria, causing DNA damage, increased plasma membrane permeability, 90% biofilm inhibition. In terms activity, effective a panel cancer lines, Ludwigia stolonifera exhibiting highest efficacy. Its ranged 0.5 µg/mL pancreatic, esophageal, colon cells to 1.5 gastric cells. Overall, all below 6 µg/mL, showing significant apoptotic nuclear intensity, mitochondrial cytochrome c release, outperforming doxorubicin. This highlights potential as sources new, safe, drugs strong properties.

Language: Английский

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Application of the circular economy to fish scale waste

Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8, P. 100170 - 100170

Published: Oct. 10, 2024

Language: Английский

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Cosmopolitan but still untapped: Antimicrobial, antibiofilm and in silico molecular docking study on Caulerpa racemosa, Dictyopteris polypodioides and Padina pavonica

Algal Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 103837 - 103837

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Editorial

Natural Product Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(8)

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

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