Microalgae as human food: Chemical and nutritional characteristics of the thermo-acidophilic microalga Galdieria sulphuraria

Food and Function

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-152

  Graziani, Giulia ^a   Schiavo, Simona ^a   Nicolai, Maria Adalgisa ^a   Buono, Silvia ^a   Fogliano, Vincenzo ^a   Pinto, Gabriele ^a   Pollio, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES; BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; BETA CAROTENE; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CULTIVATION CONDITIONS; ENZYMATIC PREPARATION; EXTRACTION PROTOCOLS; FOOD INGREDIENTS; FOOD PREPARATION; FOOD SOURCES; GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; GREEN COLOR; HETEROTROPHIC CONDITIONS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROALGA; NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHYCOBILIPROTEINS; PROXIMATE COMPOSITIONS; SELECTED STRAINS; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; VISCOZYME L;

BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATES; CHLOROPHYLL; CULTIVATION; LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS; PIGMENTS; PROTEINS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VITAMINS;

ALGAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA;

ANTIOXIDANT BIOFACTOR AOB; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROALGA; NUTRITIONAL VALUE;

FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROALGAE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84871752945     PISSN: 20426496     EISSN: 2042650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2fo30198a     Document Type: Article

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