ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Willingdon Island, Matsyapuri post, Cochin-682029, Kerala, India
*Author for correspondence: Email: suseela1962@gmail.com
#Paper presented in the International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods-The Challenges and opportunities jointly organized by Anand Agricultural University, Anand and Indian Society of Agricultural Biochemists, Kanpur at AAU, Anand, Gujarat, India on December 6 to 8, 2016.
The growing awareness about the impact of nutrition on human health has led to many outstanding nutritional discoveries and innovative product development on an unparalleled scale. Aquaceuticals, which refers to the marine based nutraceuticals is one such recent innovation in the global functional food industry. It encompasses a wide array of marine bioactive molecules of potential health benefits such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, collagen, gelatin, albumin, peptides, squalene, sulphated oligosaccharides, pigments, chondroitin sulphate, vitamins, minerals, chitosan and its oligomers etc. The worldwide documentation of the health benefits associated with their consumption demonstrated that it has greater potential in the development of innovative healthy foods. Consequently, many functional foods and health supplements based on aquaceuticals have come into the global food market. However, the search for newer and potent marine bioactive molecules is still going on.
Aquaceuticals, chitosan, bioactive molecules, functional food
