Atlantic Canadian commercial seaweeds: food product development and sensory evaluation

加拿大大西洋商业海藻：食品开发和感官评价

• 批准号: 543975-2019
• 负责人: Luhovyy, Bohdan
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Mount Saint Vincent University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=680196
• 关键词: Atlantic; Canadian; commercial; seaweeds; food

Edible seaweeds represent plant ingredients with a unique composition and are harvested in Atlantic Canada, however, their consumption in Canada is very limited. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Acadian Seaplants Limited (ASL), a leading Canadian company in production and bioprocessing of seaweeds into the value-added products for human consumption, products for pet food and livestock feed, and ingredients designed to enhance plant growth and crop production. The seaweed products known as Chondrus crispus and commercialized by ASL under the trade name Hana TsunomataTM are already successful on the Japanese market. While seaweeds have rich micronutrient composition and multiple bioactive components, their consumption in Canada is significantly limited due to the lack of cultural experience and culinary use. A better understanding of the sensory characteristics of seaweeds including their visual appearance, taste, palatability, flavour and texture, as well as their effect on physical comfort and satiety, will help to formulate a broad range of functional foods that can be introduced and accepted into the Canadian dietary pattern. A recent introduction of the new edition of Canada's Food Guide known to promote the consumption of plant ingredients resonates with this exploration of edible seaweeds, their sensory properties and varieties of foods in which they can be incorporated. This project will result in new knowledge in sensory characteristics of commercial seaweeds and their potential as functional food ingredients. The innovative component of the project is the design of new products using domestically produced seaweeds and evaluation of their sensory properties that were not assessed before. This study will provide new directions for the development of tasty food products that will include domestically produced seaweed ingredients and be consumed by Canadians.

食用海藻代表了具有独特成分的植物成分，在加拿大大西洋地区收获，但在加拿大的消费量非常有限。该项目将与 Acadian Seaplants Limited (ASL) 合作进行，ASL 是一家加拿大领先公司，致力于将海藻生产和生物加工成供人类消费的增值产品、宠物食品和牲畜饲料产品以及旨在促进植物生长和作物生产的成分。由 ASL 以 Hana TsunomataTM 商品名进行商业化的名为 Chondrus Crispus 的海藻产品已经在日本市场取得了成功。虽然海藻具有丰富的微量营养素成分和多种生物活性成分，但由于缺乏文化经验和烹饪用途，其在加拿大的消费受到极大限制。更好地了解海藻的感官特征，包括它们的视觉外观、味道、适口性、风味和质地，以及它们对身体舒适度和饱腹感的影响，将有助于制定一系列可以引入加拿大饮食模式并被接受的功能性食品。最近推出的新版加拿大食品指南以促进植物成分的消费而闻名，这与对可食用海藻、其感官特性以及可掺入海藻的食品品种的探索产生了共鸣。 该项目将带来有关商业海藻感官特性及其作为功能性食品成分潜力的新知识。该项目的创新部分是使用国产海藻设计新产品，并评估其以前未评估过的感官特性。这项研究将为开发包含国产海藻成分并供加拿大人消费的美味食品提供新方向。