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Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Production for Feed and Food Supplements
Marieke Vanthoor-Koopmans,Miguel V. Córdoba-Matson,Bertha O. Arredondo-Vega,Cruz Lozano-Ramírez,Juan Fernando García-Trejo,Mónica Cristina Rodríguez-Palacio +5 more
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Microalgae have great potential to replace standard food crops for animal and human consumption, and ongoing biotechnological advances in cultivation techniques and process technology will likely place new microalgae biomass products in the world commercial stage in the near future.Abstract:
Sustainable alternative sources of protein and lipids have become a priority due to asymptotic limitations of production of traditional crops under the burden of exponential population growth, climate change, and energy resource limits. Microalgae and cyanobacteria contain substances that have high biological value, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, proteins, pigments, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, as well as carbohydrates. Moreover, they have higher productivity than traditional crops and can be grown in places where other crops cannot be grown, such as deserts or high-salinity environments. Microalgae in the past have been used in the diet of humans and animals but mainly as supplements. Biotechnological use of the entire biomass or protein/lipids of microalgae for feedstock in human and animal consumption was reviewed. It was found that microalgae have great potential to replace standard food crops for animal and human consumption, and ongoing biotechnological advances in cultivation techniques and process technology will likely place new microalgae biomass products in the world commercial stage in the near future.read more
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Dewatering of microalgal cultures : a major bottleneck to algae-based fuels
TL;DR: In this paper, various technologies currently used for dewatering microalgal cultures along with a comparative study of the performances of the different technologies are reviewed and compared, as well as a comparison of the performance of different technologies.
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Extraction and fractionation of microalgae-based protein products
TL;DR: This review presents the current status of extraction and fractionation of protein products from microalgae and provides recommendations on processing factors that could affect protein release, functional properties, and extraction yield.
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TL;DR: C cyanotoxins/xenobiotics/pathogens in Microcystis biomass should be removed/degraded/inactivated sufficiently to assure safety for use of the biomass as a primary/main/supplemental ingredient in animal feed.
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Extraction and applications of cyanotoxins and other cyanobacterial secondary metabolites
TL;DR: This paper summarizes the optimal techniques for secondary metabolite extraction and the possible useful products that can be obtained from cyanobacteria, with additional focus given to products derived from secondary metabolites.
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Biocrude Oil Production through the Maillard Reaction between Leucine and Glucose during Hydrothermal Liquefaction
TL;DR: In this paper, leucine and glucose were used as model molecules to investigate the Maillard reaction between proteins and carbohydrates during hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae.
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