Seafood Processing By-Products: Trends and Applications

by Se-Kwon Kim

The seafood processing industry produces a large amount of by-products that usually consist of bioactive materials such as proteins, enzymes, fatty acids, and biopolymers. These by-products are often underutilized or wasted, even though they have been shown to have biotechnological, nutritional, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications. For example, by-products derived from crustaceans and algae have been successfully applied in place of collagen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493947591
• ISBN13: 9781493947591
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 597 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"