By-Products Valorization: Bioactive Compounds as Antioxidant Agents

In general, by-products from food matrices represent a negative environmental impact in several regions worldwide, despite recent improvements of waste management strategies.

Some of these by-products are rich sources of valuable compounds with high biological activities that can be useful tools to recovering and using these bioactive compounds as nutraceutical, natural food additives, therefore showing their potential to be used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and food industries.

Contributions for this Special Issue can cover the following topics: the optimization of the extraction procedure of bioactive compounds; analytical procedures for the identification and quantification of these compounds; biological activities associated with the compounds identified; antioxidant activity assays; and applications of bioactive compounds isolated from by-products.

Dr. Ana Barros
Guest Editor

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