Microalgae metabolites: A rich source for food and medicine
By R. Sathasivam, R. Radhakrishnan, A. Hashem, E. F. Abd_Allah. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2017
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Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways of fresh and marine water algae provide promising sources of fatty acids, steroids, carotenoids, polysaccharides, lectins, mycosporine-like amino acids, halogenated compounds, polyketides, toxins, agar agar, alginic acid and carrageenan. This review discusses microalgae used to produce biological substances and its economic importance in food science, the pharmaceutical industry and public health.
Subfields: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products (2018, background): “pluvialis produce 4–5% astaxanthin per dry biomass [162].”
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