Journal
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION
Volume 62, Issue 22, Pages 6187-6203Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2021.1898334
Keywords
Proteins; nutraceutical; Undaria pinnatifida; meat analogue; bioactivity
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- New Zealand National Science Challenge, High Value Nutrition grant HVN [3719491 1905-13024]
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Isolation and utilization of seaweed proteins have become a novel trend globally due to the increasing demand for healthy non-animal proteins. The attention of scientific community is on the protein derived from seaweed Undaria pinnatifida for its high nutritional quality and bioactivity. The potential food applications of U. pinnatifida-derived proteins include nutritional components, food ingredients, alternative meat products, and animal feed, with various bioactivities such as antioxidant and antihypertensive effects.
Isolation and utilization of proteins from seaweeds have been a novel trend in the world at present due to the increasing demand for healthy non-animal proteins. The attention of scientific community has been paid on the protein derived from seaweed Undaria pinnatifida due to their high nutritional quality and bioactivity. This article aims to provide an integrated overview on methods of extraction, isolation and purification of U. pinnatifida-derived proteins and composition, nutritional value and potential nutraceutical and food applications with an interest to stimulate further research to optimize the utilization. Potential food applications of U. pinnatifida derived proteins are nutritional components in human diet, food ingredients and additives, alternative meat and meat analogues and animal and fish feed. Excellent antioxidant, antihypertension, anticoagulant, anti-diabetes, antimicrobial and anti-cancer activities possessed by proteins of U. pinnatifida enable the use of these proteins in various nutraceutical applications. A number of studies have been carried out on antioxidant and antihypertensive activities of U. pinnatifida proteins, whereas other bioactivites are yet to be further studied. Hence, more research works are crucial to be done in order to facilitate and promote the emerging novel foods and nutraceuticals, using proteins from seaweed U. pinnatifida.
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