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Sea Vegetables In The Spotlight
Seaweeds are growing increasingly into popularity provide a rich source of macronutrients and micronutrients to the human diet.
Sea vegetables are referred to as edible marine algae harvested from a marine environment to be consumed in the human diet. Seaweed applications include nutraceutical, cosmeceuticals, and therapeutics. Seaweed bioactive extracts fucoidans, phlorotannins, fucoxanthin and alginates may enhance health.
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Seaweeds are a good source of a broad range of micronutrients which include vitamin C, B complex, fat-soluble vitamin A, D, E and K vitamins. Seaweed has demonstrated to be useful for the improvement of foods quality, shelf-life and the development of novel functional products and various therapeutics.
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BROWN SEAWEED BIOACTIVES
Seaweed, a generic name addressing macroalgae, are simple organisms having unique properties, as shown by scientific literature on their active ingredients
and by epidemiological data taken from populations that customarily eat seaweed
and by epidemiological data taken from populations that customarily eat seaweed
Alginates
Alginates a naturally occurring polysaccharide in brown seaweed show GI protective action, binding a wide range of damaging agents or toxins present in the GI track.
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Fucoidans
Fucoidan, a complex sulfated polysaccharide show antiviral activity, effect the growth of cancer cells, mediate blood clotting, act neuroprotective.
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Uses of Seaweed or Sea Vegetables:
DIETARY USES
Seaweed contains minerals, vitamins and trace elements, making it an excellent food product. These include iodine, calcium, potassium, iron, carotene, alginic acid, laminaran, mannitol, protein, carotene, niacin, phosphorus, the B complex vitamins, vitamin C and many other trace elements.
MEDICINAL USES
Sea Plants has long been used as a folk remedy for lowering high blood pressure.
As mentioned above, this alga possesses important minerals such as magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, and vitamins A and B, and organic iodine and amino acid. This brings to this alga a lot of properties which help to fight against:
- Inflammation,
- Oxidation of the skin: alga known to revitalize tired looking skin and to be an effective anti-oxidant helping repair damage caused by free radicals,
- Bones and Joints problems,
- Digestive disorders,
- Iodine Deficiency,
- Lethargy,
- Atherosclerosis (disease consisting in the build up of a waxy plaque on the inside of blood vessels),
- Mineral, vascular, vitamin deficiencies, etc.
Rich in trace-elements, Seaweed is also used in dietary regimes. It is a good natural remedy against obesity, with its appetite suppressant action.
COSMETIC USES
Sea alga began to be commercially harvested for alginate production. Its use is expanding to balneotherapy and other specialty applications. The extraction of alginic acid contributes to applications such as the manufacture of toothpastes and cosmetics. Including face mask, hair products and related cosmeceuticals.
Seaweed contains minerals, vitamins and trace elements, making it an excellent food product. These include iodine, calcium, potassium, iron, carotene, alginic acid, laminaran, mannitol, protein, carotene, niacin, phosphorus, the B complex vitamins, vitamin C and many other trace elements.
MEDICINAL USES
Sea Plants has long been used as a folk remedy for lowering high blood pressure.
As mentioned above, this alga possesses important minerals such as magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, and vitamins A and B, and organic iodine and amino acid. This brings to this alga a lot of properties which help to fight against:
- Inflammation,
- Oxidation of the skin: alga known to revitalize tired looking skin and to be an effective anti-oxidant helping repair damage caused by free radicals,
- Bones and Joints problems,
- Digestive disorders,
- Iodine Deficiency,
- Lethargy,
- Atherosclerosis (disease consisting in the build up of a waxy plaque on the inside of blood vessels),
- Mineral, vascular, vitamin deficiencies, etc.
Rich in trace-elements, Seaweed is also used in dietary regimes. It is a good natural remedy against obesity, with its appetite suppressant action.
COSMETIC USES
Sea alga began to be commercially harvested for alginate production. Its use is expanding to balneotherapy and other specialty applications. The extraction of alginic acid contributes to applications such as the manufacture of toothpastes and cosmetics. Including face mask, hair products and related cosmeceuticals.
The information on this website is provided to you for educational purposes by Superfood Village® under Section 5 of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994; and is not intended as medical advice. To obtain more in-depth information contact your healthcare professional for direction.
BIOACTIVES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Bioactive compounds taken from algae have driven the nutraceutical interest in seaweeds. Polysaccharides for instance, alginate, fucoidan, ulvan, agar, and carrageenan, proteins for example, phycobiliproteins, carotenoids beta-carotene and fucoxanthin, phenolic compounds such as phlorotannins, vitamins particularly vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K, essential minerals such as
calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, and potassium and polyunsaturated fatty acids constitute the interesting group of compounds. |
These compounds, isolated from seaweed, have been studied against diseases and pathologies that directly affect humans, such as hyperglycemia, diabetes, metabolic disorders, cancer, pathogenic diseases, aging, obesity, bone-related
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Phlorotannins Bioactives
Phlorotannins show antibacterial, antioxidant, antiadipogenic antidiabetics, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, and anti-allergic effects. Marine brown algae are a rich source of natural bioactive compounds, mainly phlorotannins a functional ingredient for food products, pharmaceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. Phlorotannins a powerful phytochemical, a substance making for an exciting base ingredient for food supplements and therapeutics.
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Fucoidan Bioactives
Fucoidans isolated from brown seaweed bioactivities include anti-oxidant, anti-tumor, anti-coagulant, anti-thrombotic, immunoregulatory, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory effects. Fucoidan can promote immunity a possible use of these polysaccharides include the treatment of inflammatory pathologies, such as those affecting the joints and other areas. Fucoidans are a increasingly promising application as a new potential therapeutic in renal disease.
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Information on this website is provided to you for educational purposes by Superfood Village® under Section 5 of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994; and is not intended as medical advice. To obtain more in-depth information contact your healthcare professional for direction. If you are pregnant, nursing, have any serious medical condition or taking any medication please consult your doctor before taking any dietary supplement.