“…Common solvents applied and tested among researchers, to retrieve PE from red seaweeds, are phosphate buffer [35,46,50,58,69,70,73,78,79,89,90,93] and sodium phosphate buffer [53,103], featured prominently in Table 1. However, solvents such as potassium phosphate buffer [96], distilled water [45,77,83,91], acetic acid-sodium acetate [81,102], citrate buffer [57,74], diethyl ether [74], and EDTA [84], have also been found to be effective.…”