Efficient Extraction of Carotenoids from Sargassum muticum Using Aqueous Solutions of Tween 20
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EMarT Group—Emerging Materials Research and Technologies—School of Design, Management and Production Technologies Northern Aveiro-ESAN, University of Aveiro, Estrada do Cercal, 449, Oliveira de Azeméis, 3720-509 Aveiro, Portugal
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Department of Chemistry, Aveiro Institute of Materials—CICECO, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Mar. Drugs 2019, 17(5), 310; https://doi.org/10.3390/md17050310
Received: 27 February 2019 / Revised: 22 May 2019 / Accepted: 23 May 2019 / Published: 25 May 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discovery and Application of Macroalgae-Derived Natural Products)
The replacement of synthetic compounds by natural products witnesses an increasing demand from the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food and nutraceutical industries. Included in the set of natural raw materials that are poorly explored are the macroalgae. Despite the detailed characterization and identification of most relevant biomolecules that are present in the main macroalgae species, there remains a lack of efficient and economically viable processes available to meet the needs of the markets. In this work, an efficient and single-step process, based on aqueous solutions of Tween 20, to recover carotenoids from Sargassum muticum, an invasive brown macroalgae species present in the Portuguese coast, is proposed and optimized allowing an extraction yield of 2.78 ± 0.4 mgcarotenoids.gdried mass−1, which is shown to increase the extraction efficiency by 38% when compared with traditional methods.
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Keywords:
macroalgae; Sargassum muticum; carotenoids; non-ionic surfactant; aqueous solutions; Tween 20
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Vieira, F.A.; Ventura, S.P.M. Efficient Extraction of Carotenoids from Sargassum muticum Using Aqueous Solutions of Tween 20. Mar. Drugs 2019, 17, 310.
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Vieira FA, Ventura SPM. Efficient Extraction of Carotenoids from Sargassum muticum Using Aqueous Solutions of Tween 20. Marine Drugs. 2019; 17(5):310.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVieira, Flávia A.; Ventura, Sónia P.M. 2019. "Efficient Extraction of Carotenoids from Sargassum muticum Using Aqueous Solutions of Tween 20" Mar. Drugs 17, no. 5: 310.
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