Bioactive Compounds from Food Waste: Bioprocessing and Technological Advancement
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Extraction and Industrial Applications of Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2018) | Viewed by 41020
Special Issue Editors
Interests: muscle biochemistry; meat quality; bioactive compounds from food by-products; enzymatic hydrolysis; new product development; ethnic food; halal food
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Dear Colleagues,
Generation of food by-products or food waste is unavoidable in commercial food production. While extensive efforts have been made to transform these downstream waste materials into animal feed and organic fertilizers, interest in adding value, capture of maximum nutritional value of the resource, as well as the discovery of potential health benefits that can be gained from extraction of bioactives, is growing. Several novel and environment-friendly technologies have made the utilization and extraction of antioxidants a worthy activity that can potentially lead to commercial reality.
This Special Issue would welcome original research and reviews of literature examining the use of novel and emerging technologies that can maximise the quantitative and qualitative extraction of antioxidants. A wide interest for the waste materials (meat, seafood, wine, dairy, agricultural waste, cereal processing, fermentation, nuts processing, brewery, coffee, oilseed processing). Contributions addressing the following topics are welcome:
- Use of emerging technologies for the extraction of antioxidants;
- Modelling studies and economical cost-benefit analysis;
- Identification of antioxidants from waste;
- Reviews examining waste utilisation from inedible waste sources for antioxidant recovery (systematic reviews and meta-analyses);
- Solvent free and green technologies.
Dr. Alaa El-Din Ahmed Bekhit and Dr. John Birch
Guest Editors
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