Agri-Food Wastes as Natural Source of Bioactive Antioxidants
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 60216
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cellular biochemistry; nutritional biochemistry; oxidative stress; antioxidants; nutraceuticals
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Interests: nutritional biochemistry; neurodegenerative diseases; oxidative stress; inflammation; nutraceuticals; ageing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: cellular biochemistry; nutraceuticals; neurodegeneration; oxidative stress; inflammation; antioxidants
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The agri-food industry produces a large amount of organic waste, constituting skins, peels, seeds, leaves, and other inedible fractions that are usually underutilized and cause serious problems for the environment. In the past, agri-food wastes were used to obtain products with low added value. At present, the circular economy offers various tools to recover waste, and one of the best alternatives includes transforming them into high-commercial-value products such as drugs, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. The broad presence of antioxidants in the plant kingdom and, therefore, in agri-food waste has led to an increase in interest in their recovery and further exploitation. In this regard, agri-food by-products represent a massive and low-cost source of natural bioactive compounds. To effectively recover these, it is necessary to develop green and sustainable alternatives to conventional extraction methods to increase the extraction yield and decrease the extraction time and solvent consumption.
Therefore, this Special Issue will collect research papers and reviews on the in vitro and in vivo bioactivity of antioxidant compounds from agri-food by-products, considering the different green extraction techniques used to obtain them from waste biomasses, and emphasizing their ability to modulate the complex signaling crosstalk underpinning chronic/degenerative disease development and progression.
Prof. Dr. Silvana Hrelia
Dr. Cristina Angeloni
Dr. Maria Cristina Barbalace
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agri-food byproducts
- Agri-food waste
- Nutraceuticals
- Functional foods
- Essential oils
- Bioactive compounds
- Phytochemicals
- Health effects
- Green extraction
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