title: Extraction and Characterization of Alginate from an Edible Brown Seaweed (Cystoseira barbata) Harvested in the Romanian Black Sea
abstract: Cystoseira barbata is an edible brown seaweed, traditionally used in the Black Sea area as functional food. Both alginate and brown seaweed biomass are well known for their potential use as adsorbents for heavy metals. Alginate was extracted from <i>C. barbata</i> recovered from the Romanian coast on the Black Sea with a yield of 19 ± 1.5% (<i>w</i>/<i>w</i>). The structural data for the polysaccharide was obtained by HPSEC-MALS, <sup>1</sup>H-NMR. The M/G ratio was determined to be 0.64 with a 
journal: Marine Drugs