Table 1.

Commercial products from algae

Product	Use	Example source	Reference
β-Carotene	Supplement	Dunaliella	Lamers et al. (2008)
Astaxanthin	Supplement	Haematococcus	Lorenz and Cysewski (2000)
Whole-cell nutraceuticals	Supplement	Spirulina	Khan et al. (2005)
		Chlorella	Görs et al. (2010)
Aquaculture feed	Animal feed	Tetraselmis	Gladue and Maxey (1994)
		Isochrysis	Gladue and Maxey (1994)
Polyunsaturated fatty	Supplement	Crypthecodinium	Jiang et al. (1999)
acids (PUFAs)		Shizochytrium	Spolaore et al. (2006)
Phycoerythrin	Biotechnology	Red algae	Pulz and Gross (2004)
Fuel molecules	Energy	Botryococcus	Ashokkumar and Rengasamy (2012)
		Scenedesmus	Mandal and Mallick (2009)
		Neochloris	Gouveia et al. (2009)
Anticancer drugs	Pharmacueticals	Symploca	Coates et al. (2013)