This report outlines an operational procedure for the cooking of P. monodon. It discusses critical control points within the process and gives an indication of best practices. The work conducted should be considered as a snap shot of the process and used as a starting point for further...

Sea cucumbers are prolific producers of a wide range of bioactive compounds, which are potential sources of agrichemical, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products. Sea cucumbers expel their internal organs as a defence mechanism called evisceration. We hypothesize that the reason for...