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Bioactive Seaweeds for Food Applications

Natural Ingredients for Healthy Diets

  • 1st Edition - January 16, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Yimin Qin
  • Language: English

Bioactive Seaweed Substances for Functional Food Applications: Natural Ingredients for Healthy Diets presents various types of bioactive seaweed substances and introduces their app… Read more

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Description

Bioactive Seaweed Substances for Functional Food Applications: Natural Ingredients for Healthy Diets presents various types of bioactive seaweed substances and introduces their applications in functional food products. Presenting summaries of the substances derived from seaweed, this book systematically explores new ingredients and the bioactive substances that are both environmentally friendly and highly beneficial to human health. This evidence-based resource offers an abundance of information on the applications of seaweed as a solution to meet an increasing global demand for sustainable food sources. It is an essential reference for anyone involved in seaweed substance research, seaweed processing, and food and health disciplines.

Key features

  • Discusses the use of bioactive seaweed substances as a new class of food ingredients
  • Outlines the use of seaweed as gelling agents used for food restructuring, coating and encapsulation
  • Systematically explores new ingredients and the bioactive substances that are both environmentally friendly and highly beneficial to human health

Readership

R&D personnel in food industry, students majoring in food science and technology

Table of contents

1. Seaweed bioresources

2. Bioactive seaweed substances

3. Seaweed derived polysaccharides

4. Seaweed derived sulfated polysaccharides

5. Seaweed derived carotenoids

6. Omega-3 fatty acids from microalgae

7. Seaweed derived oligosaccharides

8. Seaweed derived enzymes

9. Seaweed based marine functional foods

10. Applications of bioactive seaweed substances in functional food products

11. Phycolloids as functional food ingredients

12. Phycolloids as food restructuring agents

13. Phycolloids as food coating and encapsulation agents

14. Antioxidant properties of seaweed derived substances

15. Seaweed derived marine nutraceuticals

16. Fucoidan and immunity enhancement

17. Marine hydrocolloids for the reduction of blood fat, blood sugar and blood pressure

18. Absorption of heavy metal ions by alginate

19. Slimming effect of bioactive seaweed substances

20. Seaweeds and cancer prevention

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 16, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Yimin Qin

Dr. Yimin Qin is Director of the State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Seaweed Substances at Qingdao Brightmoon Seaweed Group, China. He is also a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Jiaxing University, China, where he is a teacher and researcher. He has more than thirty years of experience working on the research and development of alginate and chitosan-based fibrous materials. He obtained his PhD in Textile Sciences and Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1990, and subsequently spent three years at Heriot-Watt University, UK, as a post-doc researcher. Dr Qin was the Product Development Manager in Advanced Medical Solutions plc in Cheshire, UK, where he led a team of scientists and developed a number of high performance wound dressings from alginate, chitosan and other natural polymers. He then went to study for an MBA at Manchester Business School, UK, and after graduation, took up the position of Fibers Product Manager in SSL International plc, working on advanced antimicrobial biomaterials. Dr Qin’s main research interests focus on the extraction, modification and applications of alginate and other novel bioactive seaweed substances.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of the State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Seaweed Substances at Qingdao Brightmoon Seaweed Group, China. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China

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