Pomegranate Extracts as an Antioxidant in Fishery Products
Sarojini A.*
Paraprofessional Institute of Fisheries Technology, TNJFU, Madhavaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (600 051), India
Gajendra
College of Fisheries, KVAFSU, Mangaluru, Karnataka (575 002), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Fishery product, Natural antioxidant, Oxidation, Pomegranate
Abstract
Fish and fishery products always have a high demand in the world market. In last few years, there is an increasing knowledge on the importance of n-3 PUFA in human physiology among people, and fish have high contents of this type of fatty acids and this gives more importance of fishery products in human health and nutrition. One of the major drawbacks of these products is oxidation, and it leads to non-desirable off-flavour. There are many synthetic antioxidants are used to retard the oxidation in fishery products but the use of some synthetic antioxidants are restricted in many countries due to the undesirable health effects. Alternatively the use of natural antioxidants instead of synthetic compounds has great importance and many plant extracts have been used as natural antioxidants and pomegranate extracts are one among them. Pomegranate extracts at the higher concentration have the potential antioxidant effect equal to the synthetic antioxidant.
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