The document summarizes a student seminar on marine nutraceuticals. It defines nutraceuticals and discusses their classification into dietary supplements and functional foods. It then examines several types of marine nutraceuticals - sea lettuce, chitin and chitosan extracted from shellfish, abalone, and fish oil containing omega-3 fatty acids. The document outlines the health benefits of these nutraceuticals and the market and growth potential for nutraceuticals in India.

1. QUEENS COLLEGE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY
AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION AURANGABAD
Student Name :- Shaikh Shazaeb Ahmed
Reg no :- 2016QCFT65B
Seminar Topic :- Marine Nutraceuticals
Seminar Guide :- Asst. Prof. Amreen Quadri

2. CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
2. Classification of Nutraceuticals
3. Types of Marine Nutraceuticals
4. Health Benefits of Marine Nutraceuticals
5. Nutraceuticals Available in Market
6. Need for Nutraceuticals
7. Scope in India
8. Conclusion
9. Reference

3. INTRODUCTION:
 “Nutraceutical” - “Nutrition” & “Pharmaceutical” by Stephen
DeFelice in 1989.
 Nutraceutical - Food or a part of a food that provides medical
or health benefits including the prevention and treatment of
disease.
 People are concerned about healthy foods with a wide range
of medicinal values to reduce their risk of chronic diseases.
 Thus nutraceuticals play an important role in these cases.

4. CLASSIFICATION OF NUTRACEUTICALS:
Dietary Supplements:
 Product taken by mouth intended to supplement the diet.
 Include "dietary ingredients“ - vitamins, minerals, herbs or
other botanicals, amino acids.
 Dietary supplements can also be extracts or concentrates,
 Found in many forms - tablets, capsules,
softgels, gelcaps, liquids, or powders.

5. CLASSIFICATION OF NUTRACEUTICALS:
Functional Foods:
 Functional foods are fortified or enriched during processing.
 Marketed to provide some benefit to consumers.
 Sometimes, additional complementary nutrients are added,
such as vitamin D to milk.

6. TYPES OF MARINE NUTRACEUTICALS:
 Sea lettuce
 Chitin and Chitosan
 Abalone
 Fish Oil

7. SEA LETTUCE:
 Sea lettuces rich in nutrients with medicinal and health-
promoting effect.
 Rich in polysaccharides, protein and amino acids, fatty acids,
minerals, and vitamins.
 Sea lettuces as sources of diverse bioactive principles open
medicinal potential of sea lettuces.

8. CHITIN AND CHITOSAN:
 Chitin - second most abundant natural biopolymer after
cellulose.
 Chitosan - de-acetylated form of chitin.
 Chitin is recovered from processing discards of shrimp, crab,
lobster, and crayfish.
 Obtained chitin is then deacetylated to get chitosan.

9. ABALONE:
 Abalone - marine gastropod.
 Contains variety of bioactive compounds.
 Used as a traditional functional food.
 Abalone meat is one of the most precious commodities in
Asian markets .
 Abalone is composed of many vital moieties like
polysaccharides, proteins, and fatty acids.

10. FISH OIL:
 Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) - consumed by
fish and other marine species.
 Helps in coronary heart disease (CHD).
 DHA - dominate the fatty acid profile of brain and retina
lipids.
 Play a major role in development of the fetus and infants.
 Also health status and body requirements of pregnant and
lactating women.

11. NUTRACEUTICALS AVAILABLE IN MARKET:
Fish Oil
Sea Lettuce
Chitin & Chitosan
Abalone

12. HEALTH BENEFITS OF NUTRACEUTICALS:
 Marine nutraceuticals have a positive effect on human health.
 Carotenoids are responsible for the beneficial properties in
preventing human diseases.
 Marine-derived sterols have cholesterol-lowering properties.
 Marine algal-derived SPs exhibited various health-beneficial
biological activities.

13. NEED FOR NUTRACEUTICALS:
 Increased life expectancy, globally led to increase diseases
such as diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, obesity
etc.
 As a result, there has been a significant increase in the deaths.
 Consumers worldwide are looking to follow healthy
lifestyles.
 To keep these diseases at bay, there is need for an increase in
nutraceutical consumption.

14. SCOPE IN INDIA:
 In 2012, the Indian nutraceutical market accounts for only
about 1% of the global nutraceutical market.
 Current low per capita spend on these products in India
supports the growth of nutraceuticals in India.
 Other factors are increasing obesity in the population and
rising instances of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

15. CONCLUSION:
 New marine-derived nutraceuticals have beneficial effects on
human health.
 The food industries are poised for accelerated development in
the near future.
 Marine resources can be used as nutraceuticals.
 As per the recent studies marine-derived bioactive
nutraceuticals play a vital role in human health.

16. REFERENCE:
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