Advances in the Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes and By-Products
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 16195
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food science and nutrition; sustainable food systems; adding value to agro-industrial waste; production of bioactive compounds; upcycling of food wastes; novel plant-based materials
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Interests: food waste; extraction; bioactive compounds; multivariate analysis
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Interests: bioactive compounds; food chemistry; phenolic compounds; chromatography; mass spectrometry
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Interests: adding value to agro-industrial waste; production of bioactive compounds; biochemistry of microorganisms; bioremediation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruits and vegetables are a magnificent source of nutrients, with countless health benefits. The majority of global consumers are not meeting the daily recommended intake of these foods. Despite this fact, an immense mass of fruits and vegetables produced and processed by the food industry is wasted. There are a number of possibilities to recover wasted fruits and vegetables as well as the by-products of fruits and vegetables for manufacturing value-added products to meet consumers’ demand for more natural and healthier products, improve their diet sustainability and, not least, to reduce the environmental impact. In this sense, green extraction approaches can enhance the economic relevance of the obtained natural products. Environmentally friendly techniques allied with prolific natural matrices may result in sustainable bioactive formulations of high industrial interest.
The forthcoming Special Issue aims to provide quality comprehensive research and development contributions that address key challenges and topics related to the valorization and exploitation of fruit and vegetable waste and by-products for the obtainment of high-added-value natural ingredients for the industry. There is particular interest in: (i) green approaches for the recovery of bioactive compounds from food vegetable residues; (ii) characterization studies regarding nutritional, phytochemical, and biological profiles of wasted horticultural products; and (iii) the development of novel food, cosmetical and pharmaceutical products based on these matrices or their bioactive extracts. Nonetheless, other related research findings are greatly encouraged. Authors are cordially invited to contribute original research articles and reviews. All research will be published in open-access format.
Prof. Dr. Rúbia Carvalho Gomes Corrêa
Prof. Dr. Acácio Antonio F. Zielinski
Dr. Maria Inês Dias
Prof. Dr. Rosane Marina Peralta
Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Gonçalves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable food systems
- upcycling food residues
- fruit and vegetable wastes
- agro-industrial by-products
- green extraction
- clean technologies
- bioactive compounds recovery
- natural ingredients
- food security
- sustainable diet
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