Sustainable Valorization of Agro-Food By-Products: Ecofriendly Solvents and Technologies for High-Value Compounds Extraction
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural products; biorefinery; gc-ms; biobased polymers; HPLC-MS; extractives; biobased (nano)composites
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biorefinery; biomass valorization; green extraction methodologies; natural compounds; phenolic compounds; lipophilic compounds; HPLC-MS
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: circular bioeconomy; bioactive compounds; sustainable extraction methodologies; GC-MS; HPLC-MS; antioxidant effect; antimicrobial action
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Nowadays, the fossil resources depletion, the climate change and the rising population growth have increasingly claimed attention, for the sustainable production and consumption of food. Agro-food industry generates substantial amounts of by-products whose disposal-off causes economic and environmental burden. Before being used in energy production or soil amelioration, agro-food by-products can be exploited as inexpensive feedstocks of value-added biomolecules, e.g. terpenes, phytosterols and phenolic compounds, and biopolymers, e.g. polysaccharides and proteins, towards nutraceutical and food usages. In this sense, benign solvents, including deep eutectic solvents and natural deep eutectic solvents, as well as environmentally-friendly technologies have been broadly studied due to their tunable character and high selectivity for extracting valuable compounds from agro-food by-products, being industrially feasible. This special issue on “Sustainable Valorization of Agro-Food By-Products: Ecofriendly Solvents and Technologies for High-Value Compounds Extraction” welcomes original researches and reviews in the field, addressing particularly the development of extraction methodologies on novel bioactive extractives and biopolymers from agro-food by-products, via green solvents and/or advanced techniques, as well as the chemical characterization and bioactivity assessment of enriched-extracts and/or isolated compounds. The present special issue also includes but not limited to the recent approaches on the potential of new biomolecules as food additives.
Prof. Dr. Armando J. D. Silvestre
Dr. Sonia A.O. Santos
Dr. Patricia A.B. Ramos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agro-food by-products valorization
- Benign solvents
- Environmentally-friendly technologies
- Bioactive compounds
- Biopolymers
- Detailed chemical characterization
- Antioxidant activity
- Anti-inflammatory effect
- Antimicrobial action
- Natural food additives
