Advanced Sustainable Approaches for the Valorization of High-Value Bioactive Compounds from Agro-Industrial Waste: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 2027
Special Issue Editors
Interests: extraction; antioxidants; separation; analysis; HPLC-MS; pharmaceutical; optimization; modeling; experimental design; artificial neural network; inclusion; cyclodextrin
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Interests: extraction; antioxidants; polyphenols; separation; analysis; chromatography; pharmaceutical technology; optimization; modeling; encapsulation; valorization; stability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to present bioactive compounds that can be used as potential ingredients in developing value-added agri-food products. Due to the harmful effects of synthetic ingredients, the main focus is on finding natural compounds (polyphenols, minerals, vitamins, lipids, antioxidants, etc.) and raw materials enriched with these compounds that can be used for incorporation into products intended for human or animal use. The valorization of agri-food waste and the recovery of bioactive compounds are increasingly important in scientific research, as they promote sustainability in industry.
This Special Issue can provide a critical review of the advantages and disadvantages of both available traditional and advanced extraction techniques, as well as exploring the development of improved or innovative extraction procedures to draw these bioactive compounds from natural sources. The optimization and innovation of extraction procedures are important to save available resources, improve extraction efficiency, and obtain high-quality isolated bioactive compounds. Advanced analytical techniques are also welcome, as they are key to the identification of bioactive compounds and the estimation of product quality.
Certain compounds exhibit unsatisfactory physicochemical properties and require modification before their further application. Methods used to incorporate compounds to prepare functional foods, such as encapsulation, are needed to improve their properties.
The solutions to these challenges for the scientific community lie in the discovery of new compounds, as well as in assessing the impact of climate change on the availability and quality of bioactive compounds in plants.
Dr. Ivan Savic
Dr. Ivana Savic Gajic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- valorization
- recovery
- optimization
- waste
- bioactive compounds
- spectroscopy
- chromatography
- encapsulation
- additives
- products
- food
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