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Foods with microalgae and seaweeds fostering consumers health: a review on scientific and market innovations

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Nutrition plays a crucial role in health promotion and disease prevention, and dietary-related factors are, in many cases, the leading risks for worldwide mortality and morbidity. Nowadays, consumer awareness of this fact has led to an increasing interest in food products that couple both these dimensions to an imperative third overall factor of interest—sustainability. Microalgae and seaweeds have in their composition a wide range of important multifunctional bioactive compounds which may possess cardiovascular protective, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, antioxidant, anti-coagulant, anti-proliferative, and/or anti-diabetic activities. In addition, they can constitute excellent ingredients for the food industry to be used in the development of value-added food products. This review provides an overview on the current scientific and industrial developments regarding food products incorporating microalgae and seaweeds. Furthermore, technological, nutritional, sustainability, and health benefits resulting from their incorporation in different food matrixes are also explored.

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We would like to acknowledge the important contribution of Portugal Foods by providing the data report on commercial products containing seaweeds and microalgae.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of “Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) through the research project VALORMAR: Valorização Integral dos Recursos Marinhos: Potencial, Inovação Tecnológica e Novas Aplicações (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024517). We would also like to thank the scientific collaboration under the FCT project UID/Multi/50016/2019 and from FCT/MEC (PIDDAC), IF/00588/2015.

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Nova, P., Martins, A.P., Teixeira, C. et al. Foods with microalgae and seaweeds fostering consumers health: a review on scientific and market innovations. J Appl Phycol 32, 1789–1802 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-020-02129-w

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