Marine Biotechnology in the Food Domain
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Foods of Marine Origin".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 3575
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seafood by-products; bioactive molecules; in vivo assays; enzymes; protein hydrolysates; upgrading; bioactive ingredients
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: enzymes; proteins; bioactive molecules; nutraceuticals; marine biotechnology; functional food; protein hydrolisates
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ocean is one of the world's major repositories of biodiversity, with some 250,000 known species, while approximately two-thirds of the world's marine species remain unidentified. While some of these species are overexploited, others remain largely underexplored and undervalued. This situation contrasts with the increased demand by modern societies for healthy foods, for which biomolecules obtained, sustainably, from marine sources could be used as ingredients.
In this context, we invite authors to contribute articles related to the implementation of marine biotechnology in the food industry at the levels of basic and applied research, the industrial scale and commercial applications. This Special Issue covers the novel use of molecules of marine origin (including by-products derived from seafood processing) as techno-functional ingredients (antioxidants, antimicrobials, antihypertensives, nootropics, etc.) as well as their use in innovative packaging. In addition, we welcome articles and reviews dealing with the extraction of marine biomolecules (including enzymes) via green technologies, their isolation and characterization, as well as the cultivation and identification of marine species and the study of their secondary metabolites of interest in food.
Dr. Oscar Martinez-Alvarez
Dr. Mauricio Esteban Mosquera Jordán
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- enzymes
- seafood upgrading
- bioactive molecules
- nutraceuticals
- seafood quality
- high-throughput screenings
- protein hydrolysates
- marine ingredients
- functional food
- marine biotechnology
- marine cultivation
