Fruits and Vegetables By-Products and Wastes as Sustainable Sources of Functional Ingredients
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green extraction; isolation and characterization of plant bioactive compounds; the encapsulation of bioactive compounds; the valorization of agricultural by-products and wastes; the determination of bioaccessibility/bioavailability; the assessment of antioxidant activity
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Interests: encapsulation; green extraction; aromatic and medicinal products; agricultural by-products; cyclodextrins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to the Special Issue of the journal “Molecules”, entitled “Fruits and vegetables by-products and wastes as sustainable sources of functional ingredients”.
The consumption of fruits and vegetables, either fresh or in their processed form, has been associated with various health-promoting effects. However, fruits and vegetables’ production and processing sectors generate enormous amounts of by-products and waste that have a negative environmental impact (e.g., water and soil pollution and eutrophication) and result in significant economic losses. Till now, fruits and vegetables’ wastes are underutilized as animal feed. However, this biomass, which contains a great variety of bioactive compounds (e.g., polyphenols, flavonoids, dietary fibers, sugars, pigments, etc.) can be valorized in the frame of “circular economy”, to create products of high-added market value (e.g., functional food and natural food additives).
For this Special Issue, the submission of original interdisciplinary research articles, short communications, and reviews dealing with the valorization of fruits and vegetables’ by-products and wastes (i.e., pulp, peels, seeds, leaves, second-quality fruits, etc.) using novel extraction techniques (e.g., ultrasound- or microwave-assisted extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, etc.) and solvents (e.g., deep eutectic solvents, the aqueous solutions of cyclodextrin). Studies regarding the design of appropriate delivery systems in order to increase the stability and bioaccessibility/bioavailability of the extracted molecules are also welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Anastasia Kyriakoudi
Dr. Ioannis Mourtzinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruits
- vegetables
- by-products
- wastes
- extraction
- biological actions
- incorporation in food
- encapsulation
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