TY - JOUR
T1 - Health benefits and bioavailability of marine resources components that contribute to health – what’s new?
AU - Nova, Paulo
AU - Pimenta-Martins, Ana
AU - Laranjeira Silva, Joana
AU - Silva, Ana Machado
AU - Gomes, Ana Maria
AU - Freitas, Ana Cristina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of “Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização through the research project VALORMAR: Valorização Integral dos Recursos Marinhos: Potencial, Inovação Tecnológica e Novas Aplicações (POCI-024517-FEDER). We would also like to thank the scientific collaboration under the FCT project UID/Multi/50016/2019 and from FCT/MEC (PIDDAC) - IF/00588/2015.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2020/1/10
Y1 - 2020/1/10
N2 - The strict connection between nutritional intake and health leads to a necessity of understanding the beneficial and protective role of healthy nutrients and foods. The marine environment is a source of a plethora of many organisms with unique properties, extremely rich in bioactive compounds and with remarkable potential for medical, industrial and biotechnological applications. Marine organisms are an extreme valuable source of functional ingredients such as polysaccharides, vitamins, minerals, pigments, enzymes, proteins and peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), phenolic compounds and other secondary metabolites that prevent or have the potential to treat several diseases given their cardiovascular protective, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, anti-oxidant, anti-coagulant, anti-proliferative and anti-diabetic activities. This review provides an overview on the current advances regarding health benefits of marine bioactive compounds on several diseases and on human gut microbiota. In addition, it is discussed a crucial factor that is related to the effectiveness of these compounds on human organism namely its real bioavailability.
AB - The strict connection between nutritional intake and health leads to a necessity of understanding the beneficial and protective role of healthy nutrients and foods. The marine environment is a source of a plethora of many organisms with unique properties, extremely rich in bioactive compounds and with remarkable potential for medical, industrial and biotechnological applications. Marine organisms are an extreme valuable source of functional ingredients such as polysaccharides, vitamins, minerals, pigments, enzymes, proteins and peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), phenolic compounds and other secondary metabolites that prevent or have the potential to treat several diseases given their cardiovascular protective, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, anti-oxidant, anti-coagulant, anti-proliferative and anti-diabetic activities. This review provides an overview on the current advances regarding health benefits of marine bioactive compounds on several diseases and on human gut microbiota. In addition, it is discussed a crucial factor that is related to the effectiveness of these compounds on human organism namely its real bioavailability.
KW - Algae
KW - Bioactive compounds
KW - Bioavailability
KW - Health benefits
KW - Marine organisms
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U2 - 10.1080/10408398.2019.1704681
DO - 10.1080/10408398.2019.1704681
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31920109
AN - SCOPUS:85077902259
SN - 1040-8398
VL - 60
SP - 3680
EP - 3692
JO - Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
JF - Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
IS - 21
ER -