Multi-billion dollar omega 3 fatty acid may be produced from local seaweed - 1

Good morning every body! I’m taking my daily morning routine after I woke up. I’m taking my breakfast and at the same time, I’m reading a newspaper. I stucked my eyes on the articles I saw there and I thought I should also share it with you all.

The locally abundant brown seaweed is being developed to become a source of omega 3 fatty acid which has a multi-billion dollar demand in the world market. As brown seaweeds have a carotenoid call fucoxanthin which produces omega 3 fatty acid, the Marine Science Institute-University of the Philippines (MSI-UP) is pursuing the enhancement of omega 3 fatty acid content in fish through feeding of fucoxanthin from brown seaweeds.

What we’re trying to do is to find out if it (omega 3 enhancement through fucoxanthin feeding) works on fish. If that’s so, when you eat fish, you won’t anymore have to add omega 3 to the fish. Brown seaweed can be a very cheap source of omega3-producing fucoxanthin specially if this is produce d from the Philippines since the country has many sea waters as land occupies “only 11 percent of the Philippines.” Moreover, omega 3 has a big market.

This has a $99 billion demands. In Europe, they’re trying to look for feeds containing omega 3. What they do in Europe is they add omega 3 to fish (through feeds).

The Philippines is believed to have the huge potential for a global leadership position on drug and good supplment development with its being recognized as having the world’s richest marine biodiversity.