Abstract
Aquatic animals are viewed as a good source of healthy lipids. Although drying is an effective method for the preservation of aquatic animal products (AAPs), the whole process is accompanied by lipid oxidation. This article reviews the main mechanism of lipid oxidation in the drying process. It also summarizes the effects of lipid oxidation on the quality of dried aquatic animal products (DAAPs), including nutrients, color, flavor, and hazard components, especially for those harmful aldehydes and heterocyclic amines. In addition, it concluded that moderate lipid oxidation contributes to improving the quality of products. Still, excessive lipid oxidation produces hazardous substances and induces health risks. Hence, to obtain high-quality DAAPs, some effective control technologies to promote/prevent lipid oxidation are introduced and deeply discussed, including salting, high-pressure processing, irradiation, non-thermal plasma technology, defatting treatments, antioxidants, and edible coating. A systematic review of the effect of lipid oxidation on quality attributes and control technologies in DAAPs is presented, and some perspectives are made for future research.
Author contributions
Junpeng Zeng designed the study and wrote the manuscript, Xiaowei Fan, Jingyi Luo, and Junyi Song helped to collect datas, Jie Xu, Yu Song and Changhu Xue instructed the study, and all authors browsed the final manuscript.
Disclosure statement
These authors declare no competing financial interest.
Data availability statement
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.