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Dr. Eddie Tan received his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai. He pursued his study and obtained a Ph.D. from The University of Queensland Australia in Year-2016. He is the first programme coordinator for Bachelor of Science & Technology in Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kuala Pilah Campus; he is also the founder and coordinator of a Special Interest Group (SIG)- Alliance of Research & Innovation for Food (ARIF). In Year-2020, Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT) has appointed him as an accreditation panel. His research is focusing on the Nutritional and Safety Aspects of Food Processing. He has secured several research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, university and industry. His research work has allowed him to publish fourteen (15) Q1 and Q2 research papers with his current H-index of 9. His passion in teaching and research all this while has won him several recognitions and awards.
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Dr. Eddie Tan Ti Tjih
Abstract
Title: Edible Bird’s Nest, a Remarkable Salivary Product
Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) is a salivary product, it can only be produced by certain species of swiftlets in the Southeast Asia region. Even though the saliva product is not a popular delicacy among the non-Chinese community, but its recent scientific nutraceutical discoveries have been attracting a lot of interest. There are many new findings reported on EBN in the recent ten (10) years, therefore the aim of this discourse is to address the latest peer-reviewed nutraceutical reports on the EBN. An advanced search in the Web of Science Core Collection with field tag keywords “Edible bird’s nest” was performed. The search resulted in 129 articles for the year 2010 to 2020. The total number of yearly publications increased drastically from 1 article in the year-2010 to 23 articles in the year-2020. This indicates increasing interest in the research for EBN. Subsequently, the articles that met the EBN nutraceutical investigations criteria were reviewed. From the data, it can be seen that a variety of EBN nutraceutical properties were reported such as antiviral effect, cholesterol metabolism enhancement, immunoregulation, learning and memory improvement, antioxidant capacity, anti-aging, wound healing, neurodegenerative disease improvement, and chondroprotective ability. Even though the reported evidence was mostly non-clinical, but the nutraceutical animal-based studies do provide a strong signpost for the EBN in becoming a potential valuable nutraceutical product. To conclude, the newly discovered nutraceutical findings of EBN suggested that EBN may offer much more than just merely another protein source.
Keywords: Edible bird’s nest, nutraceutical, swiftlet
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