Abstract
The well-being and improvement of an individual’s health, is directly linked
to food. Acknowledging the well-studied interrelation between health and nutritional
food determines the need to cultivate, maintain and advance a novel branch of food
science, known as functional foods. Research interest has extensively increased in the
last three decades for the exploitation of seaweeds as functional foods or as
nutraceuticals, which provide health and dietary benefits beyond their nutritional
content. Additionally, seaweeds have been studied for their metabolites which exhibit
biological activity, to manufacture therapeutically superior products. This chapter
focuses on providing information related to omics-based seaweed metabolite
identification and their applications in human health as a food ingredient
Keywords: Bioactive Compounds, Macroalgae, Metabolomics, Microalgae, Seaweeds.