Chapter 2 -Production of Seaweed-Based Food Products in the Forms of Dietary Use for Healthy Life
Kitapta bölümler > Mesleki Kitap · 2023
Yazarlar: Berna KILINÇ, Hatice TEKOĞUL, F NİHAN BULAT, iREM KILINÇ
Advancements in Aquaculture: Sustainable Practices, Innovations and Applications., Mesleki Kitap, IKSAD PUBLICATIONS, Diğer, Uluslararası, 2023, ss 36-53, Türkiye, Ankara
DOI: DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10051805
Özet
<p>The nutraceutical ingredients, functional foods and healthy beverages is growing rapidly due to the drastic change in lifestyle and the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Additionally, the increasing consumer exposure to health content is creating an opportunity for the functional food and nutraceutical ingredient industries (Subramanian and Anandharamakrishnan, 2023). In recent years, seaweeds are very popular food products, as well as they have a great potential as a healthy, sustainable, and natural foods (Govaerts and Olsen, 2023). They can be consumed directly, as well as in pill and powder forms, as a dietary supplement. It is also used in the production of functional products with high nutritional value by taking part in the formulations of bakery, dairy and meat products (Kılınç and Kılınç, 2022). Edible algae are a rich source of essential amino acids, antioxidants, polyunsaturated fatty acids, polysaccharides, minerals, and vitamins (Pasdar et al., 2024). For example, dietary consumption of iodine, through seaweed can contribute up to 33% of total iodine exposure, making seaweeds the strongest contributor to iodine in the diet (Ficheux et al., 2023). In addition, seaweeds are the main sources of commercially important agar, alginate, and carrageenan (Pradhan et al., 2022). Although they have previously only been used as thickening, and gelling agents in the food products or pharmaceutical industries, recent research has revealed their potential usage as complementary medicine (Mohamed et al., 2012). Also, seaweeds and their extracts have long been used as food, animal feed, fertilizers, soil improvers, and food or feed supplements. Additionally, they have rich in nutrients and bioactive molecules such as polysaccharides, polyphenolics, fluorotanins, pigments, fatty acids, sterols and plant hormones as well as the extracts of various seaweeds play an important role in the development of advanced plant and animal immune systems and antioxidant status (Fan and Critchley, 2024). Apart from this, the excellent bioactivity of seaweed proteins allows these proteins to be used in a variety of nutraceutical applications, including antimicrobial, antihypertension, diabetes preventive, anticoagulant, cancer preventive, antioxidant (Lu, 2024). Moreover, natural antioxidants have been extracted and identified from different seaweeds to develop new food-grade functional ingredients and medicines (Burgos-Diaz et al., 2022). </p>