Today, June 4th, the Seaweed Day is celebrated, and a Seaweed Manifesto is launched, it is the result of a collaborative work of seaweed...

Recently, a mini-review about the potential use of algae as a beneficial resource of iodine, entitled «Edible Macroalgae: Beneficial...

A line of plant-based cheese alternative products has also been developed in the scope of ALGA4Food, namely fermented products based on...

Bruno Campos, one of the members of the ALGA4GFood team, presented on November 28th, 2019, at the 2nd International Conference on Food...

Seaweeds have a huge gastronomic potential and can be used to produce a wide variety of dishes. We recently made available for download...

Two traditional goat cheeses enriched with native macroalgae (Ulva sp. and Chondrus crispus) were produced. This work is the result of a...

On March 4, at the Josefa d´Óbidos School (Padre Bartolomeu de Gusmão Schools Group), in Lisbon, a pedagogical action took place, within...

The 11th Chromatography National Meeting took place from the 9th to the 11th of December at the Hotel dos Capuchos in Caparica. On this...

On November 28, researcher Bruno Moreira-Leite, a member of the Alga4Food team, presented the work entitled "Introduction of Seaweeds in...

The IV Meeting of PhD Students in Environment and Agriculture took place on 11 and 12 November at the Pólo da Mitra of the University of...

On October 24, 2019, the workshop “Macroalgae from the Portuguese Coast: An Economic and Nutritional Approach” was held at “Instituto...

On September 19 - 21, 2019, the 2nd Portuguese Conference on Marine Waste and Microplastics took place in Setúbal, It was organized by...

Alga4Food makes available the panel communication «Are Seaweeds the Food of the Future? Challenges for its Conservation and Introduction...

The work "Introducing Macroalgae from the Portuguese Coast in the Diet of Consumers: Challenges and strategies" was presented in an oral...

We are delighted to inform that the digital publication «Algas, o mar à mesa» (only in Portuguese) is now available for download from the...

Invited by Professor. Paulina Mata, coordinator of the Master Degree in Gastronomic Sciences at FCT-NOVA, and member of the ALGA4FOOD...

On June 17, 2019 the «1st UCIBIO Workshop on Blue Biotechnology» was held at FCT NOVA, Caparica Campus, having as one of the organizers...

On May 17, 2019, the 4th Meeting of Medicinal Biotechnology took place at Escola Superior de Saúde - Instituto Politécnico do Porto. The...

On May 6, 2019, Professor João Paulo Noronha, PI of the ALGA4FOOD Project, gave a lecture at the FCT NOVA Chemistry Department. The title...

The Alga4Food Project was featured in the Spanish daily newspaper El País on April 26, 2019. In the reportage, by journalist Javier...

The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements is commemorated in 2019 to mark its 150th anniversary. On April 16,...

Members of ALGA4FOOD and students of the Master Degree in Gastronomic Sciences at FCT NOVA participated in the 5th International Sea...

It was another day for collected seaweeds, this time in Lagoa de Óbidos, in Foz do Arelho. In these calm waters it was possible to...

ALGA4FOOD makes available the panel presentation «The Use of Ultrasound in Culinary Extraction Processes: A Study in Stocks and Infused...

On October 9, there was another field trip, this time at Praia do Magoito, in Sintra. There several taxa were harvested, of which the...

On October 4, the Alga4Food Project moved for the second time to “Praia de Buarcos”, in “Figueira da Foz”. Several species were...

After algae gathering at Magoito, on August 27, a team of audiovisual professionals collected images of Alga4Food based at DQ-FCT/UNL....

On August 27, the Alga4Food team traveled to “Praia do Magoito”, part of the Natural Park of Sintra-Cascais. Along its coastal shoreline,...

On July 24, there was UHPLC-DAD (Ultimate 3000 Thermo Scientific) training equipment in laboratory 319A of the Department of Chemistry of...

At juin of 2018, the Alga4Food project had a field trip. It was time to collect seaweed. It was harvested on the beach of Buarcos,...

During the 3rd CiiEM International, at the Cooperativa de Ensino Egas Moniz, in Caparica, the Alga4Food project was present. In addition...

On 26th April, 2018, another gastronomic session was held at the «Professional Cooks of Portugal Association» (ACPP). The meeting with...

In March 2018, two national meetings took place at FCT-UNL; the «XXI National Meeting of Students of Biology» and the «VI ENEEQ -...

The 4th Sea Urchin International Festival, which took place last March in Ericeira (Portugal), was attended by several chefs and people...