Trends in Green Technologies for the Extraction of Bioactive Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

In the last year there has been increasing interest in the new biotechnological industry for the production of bioactive compounds that have many beneficial effects on human health, such as antioxidant effects, antimicrobial activities, and contrasting aging, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

Many of these natural bioactive compounds are found in food waste and agricultural byproducts, which represent both a cost for the food industry and a potential negative impact on the environment. Therefore, the recovery of natural bioactive compounds from industrial food waste is a recent practice in producing fortified food, nutritional supplements or ingredients for pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.

The current trend is to use ecofriendly techniques to extract bioactive compounds. Recently, emerging technologies considered “green” have been implemented using aqueous solutions and excluding organic solvents or energy-consuming methods. The derived extracts are particularly attractive since they not only reduce environmental pollution but also because they are free of contaminants which are potentially harmful to human health.

For this Special Issue, we invite you to submit original articles describing your latest research data or review papers highlighting the recent findings in the field.

This Issue will include studies reporting “green” techniques for the extraction of bioactive compounds from vegetable and animal matrices, characterization of extracts and their possible uses.

Dr. Fabiana Pizzolongo
Dr. Stefania Filosa
Guest Editors

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