Extraction and Characterization of Alginate from an Edible Brown Seaweed (Cystoseira barbata) Harvested in the Romanian Black Sea

Trica, Bogdan; Delattre, Cédric; Gros, Fabrice; Ursu, Alina Violeta; Dobre, Tanase; Djelveh, Gholamreza; Michaud, Philippe; Oancea, Florin

doi:10.3390/md17070405

Extraction and Characterization of Alginate from an Edible Brown Seaweed (Cystoseira barbata) Harvested in the Romanian Black Sea

Cystoseira barbata is an edible brown seaweed, traditionally used in the Black Sea area as functional food. Both alginate and brown seaweed biomass are well known for their potential use as adsorbents for heavy metals. Alginate was extracted from C. barbata recovered from the Romanian coast on th…