Sustainable Bioactive and Functional Molecules from Agri-Food Waste: A Tour to Applications—2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 455
Special Issue Editor
Interests: green chemistry; bioactive molecules; cytotoxicity; isolation and characterization; innovative extraction methods; added-value products; pharmacology; food science
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, agri-food waste is a social, economic, and ethical concern. The valorization of agri-food waste is important due to the scarcity of resources, and is desirable from a circular economy perspective. Furthermore, the industry is increasingly focused on finding new sources of bio-based molecules, allowing for the replacement of synthetic products, for example, antioxidants, colorants, and preservatives. These bio-based molecules can be an important dietary source of bioactive compounds that contribute to improvements to health and quality of life, demonstrating their potential as nutraceuticals, functional foods, and/or pharmaceutical components for therapeutic purposes.
This Special Issue deals with different aspects of this theme:
- The nutritional value of food and agri-food by-products;
- The application of green sustainable technologies for the extraction and purification of bioactive compounds from food and agri-food waste, e.g., ohmic heating, microwaves, supercritical fluids, ultrasound, pulsed electric field, enzyme-assisted extraction, etc.;
- Analytical methods for the identification and quantification of biomolecules;
- The biological characterization of obtained extracts or isolated molecules, such as antioxidants, antimicrobial, anticancer, antihypertensive, antidiabetic, and molecules with other activities;
- Functional properties of bio-based molecules recovered from agri-food by-products, such as antioxidant, colorant, and preservative properties;
- The development of high added-value products from agri-food by-products for industrial applications.
We cordially invite submissions of original articles and reviews that describe research in these areas.
Dr. Pedro Ferreira-Santos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green chemistry
- bioactive molecules
- isolation and characterization
- innovative extraction methods
- added-value products
- functional foods
- nutraceuticals
- health applications
