Bioactive Compounds of Horticultural Products and By-Products
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Processed Horticultural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 133
Editors
Interests: by-products; encapsulation; circular economy
Interests: conventional and emerging extraction techniques; biologically active compounds from natural sources; food drying; valorisation of extracts for food formulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, horticulture products are used mostly in food industry, but their by-products have also become an interesting source of nutrients due to their bioactive compounds (such as polyphenols, carotenoids, anthocyanins, etc.). Therefore, in the context of the circular economy, the large quantities of agri-food waste produced worldwide by the horticulture processing industry warrant recovery as new valuable food products (as jelly candies enriched with polyphenols extracted from apple pomace).
This Special Issue will contribute to the dissemination of new knowledge and results related to the protection, processing and quality evaluation of biologically active compounds extracted from horticulture products and by-products. We invite contributions on the traditional and modern aims of the extraction (e.g., ultrasound-assisted extraction, super-critical fluid extraction, etc.), protection (e.g., encapsulation) and quantification (e.g., high-performance liquid chromatography) of bioactive compounds from fruits, vegetables, flowers, grapes, and their by-products.
Dr. Iuliana-Maria Enache
Dr. Liliana Mihalcea
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anthocyanins
- polyphenols
- conventional and emerging extraction method
- horticultural by-products
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