Valorization of Food Processing By-Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 69669
Special Issue Editors
Interests: olive oil; table olive; antioxidants; extraction
Interests: olive oil; food by-products; bioactive compounds; polyphenols
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Interests: olive oil; table olives; food by-products; polyphenols
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays the zero waste is an important goal for all the manufacturing activities. Food processing produce by-products that could contain an important amount of value when they become an output. In a circular economy, it is very important to aim at a complete recovery of molecules, energy and biomass from by-products that should not call waste but they should be named “secondary products”. For these reasons, the by-product treatments should be integrated into the whole chain of production and distribution of foodstuffs. By mean of controlled fermentations and appropriate treatments, we could be obtained biogas and compost for agricultural use from food processing by-products. Other researches are carried out to obtain useful applications from them. Surely, the most interesting is the extraction of active compounds or fractions that could be re-used in food processing or other fields such as cosmetic, pharmaceutical and bio-materials production. Many innovative operations could be applied to food by-products to obtain high quality value with a wide range of possible applications. In the near future, these aspects will greatly increase their importance, so a collection of high innovative manuscripts could be useful to the scientific community. This Special Issue is therefore open to all contributions aimed at improve knowledge about food processing by-products.
Prof. Dr. Marco Poiana
Prof. Dr. Francesco Caponio
Prof. Dr. Antonio Piga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reuse
- recovery value
- active compounds
- extraction
- fermentation
- new ingredients
- new use
- no-waste
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