University of Alaska Fairbanks Intern Looks at Nucleotides as Health Supplement
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KMXT] by Kayla Desroches - August 4, 2017
Kodiak -- Interns this summer with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute are looking at food science in Kodiak, and one is investigating a new health food fad.
University of Alaska Fairbanks student Alina Fairbanks is doing market research focusing on nucleotides.
“A lot people when I explain this to them they’re like fish oil. Well, kinda. We want to extract nucleotides from pollock, right now because the Pollock Conservation Cooperative is funding me, but we want to utilize the entire product of a fish. … A lot of people are exploring new ideas.”
Fairbanks said her research is on the powdered form, as opposed to pills or liquid, such as fish oil...
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