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Marine functional food

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  • Joop Luten, former head of the “Department of Seafood and Aquaculture” at the “Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research”, the book presents a review on the relationship between seafood consumption and beneficial health effects, as well as on the quality aspects involved in foods containing bioactive compounds obtained from fish, such as omega 3 fatty acids

  • Several researchers that contributed to this book ran their projects in the “Nordic Network for Marine Functional Food (MARIFUNC)” under Prof

  • The first chapter covers the effects of lipids, phospholipids, proteins, peptides, amino acids, selenium, chitosan and chondroitin in the risk reduction for a number of disturbances, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases, allergy and mental development

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Joop Luten, former head of the “Department of Seafood and Aquaculture” at the “Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research”, the book presents a review on the relationship between seafood consumption and beneficial health effects, as well as on the quality aspects involved in foods containing bioactive compounds obtained from fish, such as omega 3 fatty acids. Several researchers that contributed to this book ran their projects in the “Nordic Network for Marine Functional Food (MARIFUNC)” under Prof.

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