An Overview of the Potential of Sea Cucumbers with Antioxidant and Antiviral Contents as Nutritional Supplements

Sea cucumber is one of the marine biotas and used as drugs composition or as an additional component of foods. Its complete nutritional compositions, antioxidant and antiviral activities have been widely studied and are known useful for human health. Each sea cucumber species, may have different antioxidant activity values, also depends on its forms, organic or aqueous extract. In the right dose and duration of consumption of sea cucumber extract, it has significant therapeutic effect in several medical problems. Not only as an antioxidant and antiviral, but sea cucumber has also been known contain antifungal, antimetastase, cytotoxic, and various other roles that can be supplied for medical treatment.