Table 1.
Microalgae products
| Products | Microalgae | References |
|---|---|---|
| Food | Chlorella, Spirulina, Odontella auriata, Tetraselmis chuii Aphanizomenon flosaquae, Nostoc, A. sacrum, Spirogyra, Oedogonium | Gantar and Svirčev (2008), Liu and Chen (2016) and Bleakley and Hayes (2017) |
| Feed | Chlorella, Spirulina, Tetraselmis, Isochrysis, Pavlova, Phaeodactylum, Chaetoceros, Nannochloropsis, Skeletonema, Thalassiosira | Gouveia et al. (2008) and Yaakob et al. (2014) |
| Vitamins & carotenoids | ||
| Vitamin B12 | Chlorella, Spirulina | Begum et al. (2016), Henríquez et al. (2016) and Sun et al. (2016) |
| Vitamin E | Porphyridum cruentum | |
| β‐carotene | D. salina, Haematococcus pluvialis, Synechococcus, Nanocloropsis gaditana | |
| α‐carotene | Chlorella | |
| Astaxanthin | D. salina, H. pluvialis, Chlorella | |
| Lutein | Murellopsis sp., Chlorella, Scenedesmus almeriensis, Auxenochlorella protothecoides | |
| Zeaxanthin | D. salina, Chlorella, Synechococcus, N. gaditana | |
| Canthaxanthin | Scenedesmus komarekii, D. salina, Chlorella | |
| Fucoxanthin | Phaeodactyllum tricornutum | |
| Phytoene | D. salina | |
| Phytofluene | D. salina | |
| Violaxanthin | Chlorella, Synechococcus, N. gaditana | |
| Antheraxanthin | Chlorella | |
| Echinenone | Botrycoccus braunii | |
| Cryptoxanthin | D. salina | |
| Phycobiliproteins | ||
| Phycocyanin | Spirulina | Sonani et al. (2016) |
| Phycoerythrin | Porphyridium | |
| Allophycocyanin | Spirulina | |
| Chlorophyll | ||
| Chlorophyll A | A. flosaquae | Bishop and Zubeck (2012) |
| PUFAs | ||
| Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) | Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Monodus subterraneus, P. cruentum, Chaetoceros calcitrans, Nannochloropsis, Schizochytrium | Pereira et al. (2012) and Adarme‐Vega et al. (2014) |
| Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) | Crypthecodinium cohnii, Isochrysis galbana, Pavlova salina, Schizochytrium | |
| Linoleic acid | D. salina | |
| γ‐linolenic acid | Spirulina | |
| Oleic acid | D. salina, Spirulina | |
| Lauric acid | Spirulina | |
| Polysaccharides | ||
| Sulphated polysaccharides | Porphiridium spp. | Delattre et al. (2016) and Xiao and Zheng (2016) |
| Nostoflan | Nostoc flagelliforme | |
| Sterols | ||
| Brassicasterol, sitosterol, and stigmasterol | D. salina, Dunaliella tertiolecta | Luo et al. (2015) |
| Phenolic & volatile compounds | ||
| Phenolic compounds | Chlorella, Nostoc, Anabaena, Tolypothrix, Chlamydomonas | Plaza et al. (2010) and de Morais et al. (2015) |
| β‐Cyclocitral | D. salina | |
| α‐ and β‐Ionone | D. salina | |
| Neophytadiene | D. salina | |
| Phytol | D. salina | |
| Pentadecane | Synechocystis sp. | |
| Heptadecane | Spirulina | |
| Extracts | ||
| Total | Chlorella, Chlamydomonas | Nakashima et al. (2009) |
| Lipids | Nostoc, Ulkenia | |
| Carotenoids | Chlorella | |