Fucoxanthin, a brown-colored pigment from algae, is gaining much attention from industries and researchers recently due to its numerous potential health benefits, including anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-obesity functions, and so on. Although current commercial production is mainly from brown macroalgae, microalgae with rapid growth rate and much higher fucoxanthin content demonstrated higher potential as the fucoxanthin producer. Factors such as concentration of nitrogen, iron, silicate as well as light intensity and wavelength play a significant role in fucoxanthin biosynthesis from microalgae. Two-stage cultivation approaches have been proposed to maximize the production of fucoxanthin and other valuable metabolites. Sustainable fucoxanthin production can be achieved by using low-cost substrates as a culture medium in an open pond cultivation system utilizing seawater with nutrient recycling. For downstream processing, the integration of novel “green” solvents with other extraction techniques emerged as a promising extraction technique.

岩藻黄质是一种来自藻类的棕色色素，由于其众多潜在的健康益处，包括抗氧化、抗癌、抗肥胖等功能，最近受到了工业和研究人员的广泛关注。尽管目前的商业生产主要来自棕色大型藻类，但生长速度快且岩藻黄质含量高得多的微藻显示出作为岩藻黄质生产者的更高潜力。氮、铁、硅酸盐的浓度以及光强度和波长等因素在微藻的岩藻黄质生物合成中起着重要作用。已经提出了两阶段培养方法，以最大限度地提高岩藻黄质和其他有价值的代谢物的产量。可持续岩藻黄质生产可以通过使用低成本基质作为开放池塘养殖系统中的培养基来实现，该系统利用海水进行养分循环。对于下游加工，新型“绿色”溶剂与其他提取技术的结合成为一种很有前途的提取技术。