High-Value-Added Utilization of Food and Food By-Products
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Process Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: value-added by-products; novel product development; resistant starch processing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The high-value-added utilization of food and its by-products has contributed to economic and environmental benefits while simultaneously playing a crucial role in ensuring the quality, safety, and reduction in associated food waste. Implementing this value-added strategy is crucial, particularly in facilitating waste conversion into valuable resources, optimizing resource utilization, and promoting the development of a circular and ecological economy. In addition, it serves as a key to achieving environmental protection, economic growth, and reaching the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This Special Issue on the “High-Value-Added Utilization of Food and Food By-Products” seeks high-quality works focusing on effectively mitigating food waste, enhancing the value-added utilization of food and waste management.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Relevant applications of food by-products and food waste encompass various sources, including agricultural food (fruits and vegetables), dairy products, animal-derived items, fish, seafood, microbial fermentation products, etc. The scope of application encompasses the extraction of bioactive compounds, the incorporation of food additives, the development of edible coatings, the utilization of adsorbents, the production of bio-packaging materials and nanoparticles, the implementation of bioremediation agents and biofertilizers, the conversion of energy sources, as well as the recycling of other valuable compounds.
Dr. Wen-Chang Chang
Guest Editor
Dr. Ping-Hsiu Huang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- nutraceutical compounds
- vegetable and fruit by-products
- circular bioeconomy
- eco-efficiency
- food wastage
- novel methodologies
- food safety
- sustainability
- traceability
- waste fermentation
- product valorize
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