Crocodile: potential of nutritious food source, functional food and value-added products

Bui Van Mien * , Ton That Hung , Bui Thi Bao Chau , & Le Trung Thien va cac thanh vien Bo mon PTSP

* Correspondence: Bui Van Mien (email: MienBV@vhu.edu.vn)

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Bùi, M. . V., Tôn, H. T., Bùi, C. T. B., & Lê, P. T. T. và các thành viên B. môn. (2017). Crocodile: potential of nutritious food source, functional food and value-added products. Van Hien University Journal of Science 4(4), 43.
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Volume 4 - Issue 4 (2016)
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Công nghệ thực phẩm

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Apart from the skin as the main product, a lot of valuable products can be produced from all parts of a crocodile, such as nutritious products, functional food and value-added products. The analysis and study of crocodile’s body parts after slaughtering has opened new directions of developing these valuable products. Crocodile’s meat with pink color and natural scent is a delicious, nutritious food, which is composed of 20.92% proteins, 1.94% lipids, 6.83% minerals, 24.12% dry matters, and especially a lot of essential amino acids. Crocodile’s meat has been processed into high-quality sausage. Crocodile’s blood, on the other hand, has many precious biological characteristics, among which are the antibacterial capacity and the ability to supplement human’s health with high nutritional value. By spray-drying, crocodile’s blood is made into a type of powder that can be stored longer than liquid. The study of antibacterial capacity of crocodile’s blood plasma has shown an application of suitable processing techniques to incorporate crocodile’s blood into functional food. Moreover, crocodile’s bones, which were assumed to be useless, since 2010 has become a very precious ingredient to produce “serum”. This bone “serum”, along with training, practicing and surgical methods, has help a lot of children who have to suffer from the Osteogenesis imperfecta and enable them to return to their normal life with family and school.
Keywords: crocodile, functional food, value-added product, nutritious food

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