In the food industry, synthetic color-active compounds can be added as additives to replace natural colors that are damaged during processing. This addition reduces batch-to-batch fluctuation and increases development of new or desired products appealing consumers where absent. Synthetic colorants cannot produced by any bioprocess. contrast, Food Drug Administration declared algae such Chlorell...

The discovery of the environmental impacts caused by petroleum-based polymers has led to use natural gaining more and space. Naturally occurring polymers, also known as biopolymers, are chemical compounds produced living things or raw materials from renewable energy sources. Their main advantage is decomposition, while fossil non-renewable energies can take hundreds years decompose, biopolymers...

Ketchup is one of the most popular tomato sauces in restaurant and catering sector. provides accents colour flavouring, as well a smell texture that familiar comforting. When compared to traditional products, alternative recipes make use new ingredients like microalgae sweeteners, well-known because their functional sensory properties. In this study, ketchups, with without sugar addition, along...

Equilibrium experiments of chromium(III) biosorption by microalga (Spirulina sp.) and macroalga (Pithophora varia) were investigated in this paper. Influence of the following process parameters was studied: pH, biomass concentration and temperature. The equilibrium of the process was described with Langmuir equation. The model parameters were determined at various process conditions. The best o...

Cyanobacterial (Spirulina platensis) photosynthetic membranes and isolated F1 ATPase were characterized with respect to ATP activity. The following results indicate that the regulation of expression of ATPase activity in Spirulina platensis is similar to that found in chloroplasts: the ATPase activity of Spirulina membranes and isolated F1 ATPase is mostly latent, a characteristic of chloroplas...

BACKGROUND Spirulina is a commercial alga well known to contain various antioxidants, especially phycocyanin. Apart from being sold as a nutraceutical, Spirulina is incorporated as a functional ingredient in food products and beverages. Most of the previous reports on antioxidant activity of Spirulina were based on chemical rather than cell-based assays. The primary objective of this study was ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of Spirulina and/or exercise training in the control of serum glucose homeostasis in diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Young Wistar rats were induced to diabetes by intravenous alloxan administration and separated into four groups: diabetic control (DC), diabetic Spirulina (DS), diabetic exercise (DE) and diabetic exercise Spi...

Electrospun nanofibers composed of polymers have been extensively researched because of their scientific and technical applications. Commercially available polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and polyhydroxybutyrate-co-valerate (PHB-HV) copolymers are good choices for such nanofibers. We used a highly integrated method, by adjusting the properties of the spinning solutions, where the cyanophyte Arthrospi...