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Microalgae as a sustainable source of nutraceuticals -- Functional foods from cyanobacteria : an emerging source for functional food products of pharmaceutical importance -- Seaweed carotenoid, fucoxanthin, as functional food -- Functional foods from mushroom -- Microbial production of organic acids -- Microbes as a source for the production of food ingredients -- Microbial xanthan, levan, gellan, and curdlan as food additives -- Microbial fibrinolytic enzyme production and applications -- Microbial products maintain female homeostasis -- Production of high-quality probiotics by fermentation -- Probiotics and their health benefits -- Nutritional potential of auricularia auricula-judaeÿand termitomyces umkowaan : the wild edible mushrooms of South-Western India.