Bioactive compounds and biological functions of sea cucumbers as potential functional foods

Sea cucumbers are a group of economically important invertebrate marine animals that have been widely used as tonic foods in Asia countries. Various bioactive compounds in sea cucumbers including peptides, triterpene glycosides, polysaccharides, phenols, and lipids have been reported. These compound...

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Main Authors: Cheng Xu, Rui Zhang, Zhiyou Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175646461830433X