Marine Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 5077
Special Issue Editor
Interests: algal biotechnology; bioprocessing; marine bioactives; downstream processing; omega-3; carotenoids; proteins; enzymes; nanotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Given the success of the previous Special Issue “Marine Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods”, (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/Marine_Nutraceuticals_Functional_Foods), as well as the general interest in this topic, we are pleased to announce the second version of this Special Issue.
Marine ecosystems have high diversity of living organisms, providing numerous marine resources that possess many biologically active materials suitable for human nutrition and health. The diverse group of organisms includes invertebrates, macroalgae, microalgae, bacteria, cyanobacteria and crustaceans that produce bioactives (secondary metabolites) to adapt to the hostile marine environment. Numerous bioactive compounds have recently been studied for potential biomedical and food applications. These bioactive compounds include certain polysaccharides (agar, carrageenan, fucoidans, etc.), proteins and peptides (collagen gelatin, phycocyanin), fatty acids (omega-3 fatty acids, and carotenoids), enzymes (proteases, lipases) and vitamins and minerals (fat and water soluble) that can be added to foods to produce functional or fortified products. In addition, these marine-derived compounds are known to have anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial and prebiotic and probiotic activities, enabling them to be applied as nutraceuticals. The Special Issue will present recent research into marine nutraceuticals, requirements and benefits of nutraceutical supplementation, the cost-effective production of bioactives, the use of innovative technologies to extract and stabilize marine bioactives and their applications as functional foods.
This issue will cover the following topics:
- Recent developments in the production of nutraceuticals from marine biomass (microalgae, macroalgae, bacterium and marine animals);
- Technological development for the cost-effective production of marine bioactives;
- Innovative technological development for extracting nutraceuticals;
- Application of various marine bioactives as functional foods, etc.
Dr. Munish Puri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- omega-3 fatty acids
- carotenoids
- bioactives
- microalgae
- functional food
- probiotic, prebiotic
- macroalgae
- seaweed
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