Microalgae-derived pigments for the food industry

H Sun, Y Wang, Y He, B Liu, H Mou, F Chen, S Yang - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the food industry, manufacturers and customers have paid more attention to natural
pigments instead of the synthetic counterparts for their excellent coloring ability and healthy …

An overview of microalgae biomass as a sustainable aquaculture feed ingredient: Food security and circular economy

A Ahmad, S W. Hassan, F Banat - Bioengineered, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sustainable management of natural resources is critical to food security. The shrimp feed
and fishery sector is expanding rapidly, necessitating the development of alternative …

Microalgae biomass as a sustainable source for biofuel, biochemical and biobased value-added products: An integrated biorefinery concept

SYA Siddiki, M Mofijur, PS Kumar, SF Ahmed, A Inayat… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Microalgal biomass has been proved to be a sustainable source for biofuels including bio-
oil, biodiesel, bioethanol, biomethane, etc. One of the collateral benefits of integrating the …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant compounds from microalgae: A review

N Coulombier, T Jauffrais, N Lebouvier - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The demand for natural products isolated from microalgae has increased over the last
decade and has drawn the attention from the food, cosmetic and nutraceutical industries …

Extraction pathways and purification strategies towards carminic acid as natural-based food colorant: A comprehensive review

D Ferreyra-Suarez, L Paredes-Vargas, SM Jafari… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a current trend of fabricating healthier products, food manufacturing companies seek for
natural-based food colorant aiming to replace the synthetic ones, which apart from meeting …

Microalgae as sustainable food and feed sources for animals and humans–biotechnological and environmental aspects

A Kusmayadi, YK Leong, HW Yen, CY Huang… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Offering a potential solution for global food security and mitigating environmental issues
caused by the expansion of land-based food production, the carbon-hunger and nutrient …

Production, extraction and characterization of microalgal and cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides

C Delattre, G Pierre, C Laroche, P Michaud - Biotechnology advances, 2016 - Elsevier
The current interest of scientific but also industrial communities for the exploitation of
microalgae is correlated with the development of specific culture and downstream …

Carotenoids, phenolic compounds and tocopherols contribute to the antioxidative properties of some microalgae species grown on industrial wastewater

H Safafar, J Van Wagenen, P Møller, C Jacobsen - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
This study aimed at investigating the potential of microalgae species grown on industrial
waste water as a new source of natural antioxidants. Six microalgae from different classes …

Biologically active metabolites synthesized by microalgae

MG de Morais, BS Vaz, EG de Morais… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microalgae are microorganisms that have different morphological, physiological, and
genetic traits that confer the ability to produce different biologically active metabolites …

Algae as production systems of bioactive compounds

I Michalak, K Chojnacka - Engineering in Life Sciences, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Algal extracts are gaining increasing interest due to their unique composition and
possibilities of wide industrial applications. Various extraction techniques are used for …