Agricultural By-Products in Animal Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

Procedures such as vinification and olive oil production are of high nutritional and social significance since they lead to the generation of essential agricultural products. However, these processes also result in by-products that, due to their high organic content, are serious environmental pollutants. Thus, it is imperative that specific by-products, including grape pomace and olive mill wastewater, can be valorized through their incorporation in feed for productive animals. There is recent experimental evidence indicating that agricultural by-products are rich in polyphenolic compounds, which exert potent antioxidant properties, hence they appear to be proper constituents of biofunctional feed. 

Within this frame of reference, researchers are invited to submit original articles, reviews, and opinion papers focusing on (but not limited to):
- The biological (e.g., antioxidant) role of agricultural by-products in vitro and in vivo;
- The biological effects of biofunctional feed enriched with agricultural by-products after administration to animals;
- The toxic effects of agricultural by-products;
- The assessment of the nutritional value of biofunctional feed in vitro and in vivo;
- The in vitro and in vivo evaluation of the antioxidant properties of polyphenolic compounds and plant extracts that are potential constituents of biofunctional feed.

Dr. Aristidis S. Veskoukis
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Kouretas
Guest Editors

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