Green Extraction Technologies and Analytical Strategies for Sustainable Food By-Products Valorisation: Food-Health Relationships in Sustainable Agro-Food Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 13973
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2. Chestnut R&D Center—Piemonte, Regione Gambarello 23, 12013 Chiusa di Pesio, Italy
Interests: tree crops; chestnut cultivation; secondary metabolites; quality assessment; nutraceutical properties; sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Food waste valorization and re-use strategies, rather than conventional food waste processing (i.e. incineration or composting), are becoming more and more popular, and they are commonly named as “2nd generation food waste management”. These strategies are particularly interesting for food processing companies because the valorization of food and food-supplement by-products could have a significant economic impact for the producers, and it could be an important innovation in this field.
Green procedures are aimed at shortening processing time, reducing solvents consumption, and decreasing pollution, and they are, as much as possible, energy-saving and cost-saving. The use of green extraction technologies in the food industry has recently attracted attention, above all due to the numerous advantages of this technique in food-processing (i.e., filtration, defoaming, degassing, cutting), food preservation (i.e., enzyme and microorganism inactivations), and natural product-extraction. Moreover, the solvents utilized in green extractions are biograde solvents produced from biomasses such as wood, starch, vegetables, and fruits.
Innovative and eco-compatible strategies to recycle food by-products, which have proven to remain rich in phytochemicals and bioactive compounds, should be developed as an alternative to incineration or composting, in order to obtain high added-value products in sustainable agro-food systems.
Dr. Dario Donno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green procedures
- re-use strategies
- food by-products
- eco-compatible analytical strategies
- food–waste–health relationships
- by-products phytochemical composition
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