Our research is focused on the prospection of new bioactive compounds from seaweed that can be useful in different sectors such as food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. There is a growing awareness in society about the potential of marine organisms to deliver bioactive compounds. These compounds can be used to produce sustainable and safer functional cosmetics to improve the quality of food products and serve as source of new chemical structures for the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.
One of the challenges of using seaweed in the development of new food products is to avoid using high amounts that could lead to unpleasant sensory properties in food. Using seaweed extracts is a way to get around this problem. With this protocol, we were able to develop pasta, wheat, add nutritional value by incorporating whole algae.
Usually, the addition of these ingredients provides less common sensory properties. However, with the developed formulation, a consumer acceptance was still achieved.
