Recent Advances and Future Trends on Comprehensive Utilization of Food Waste and Side Streams
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2022) | Viewed by 25873
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrients; bioactive compounds; food preservation; thermal treatment; innovative processing; high-pressure processing; compressed fluids; pulsed electric fields; ultrasound; microwaves; phytochemical purification; phytochemical analysis; compound isolation; bioaccessibility; bioavailability
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Interests: nutrition; nutrients; digestion; bioactive compounds; bioaccessibility; bioactivity; health-related properties; food science; food habits; food knowledge
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Interests: natural products; agricultural by-products/wastes; biological activities; toxicity and genotoxicity; isolation and chemical characterization; food products development; phytocosmetic and herbal products development
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Interests: natural products; bioactive compounds; biocompounds extraction, isolation and characterization; sustainable use of waste; food preservation; phytocosmetic product development; cosmetic product development; food products development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to consumer´s growing awareness regarding sustainability in the food chain, several initiatives have been developed at a private and public level to address food waste and side streams underutilization. In this sense, the UN’s 2030 program for sustainable development, and the society's growing demand for greener alternatives, encourage the global food industry to develop affordable, safe, effective, innovative and ecologically processing technologies.
Food waste and side streams have been traditionally underexploited or used in activities with low-added-value. However, they have a great potential for food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological and cosmetic activities, among other fields of application. In this sense, several studies have evaluated food waste and side streams from agriculture and marine origin as an excellent source of nutrients and bioactive compounds. Moreover, these matrices can be also used as a raw material for the development of biofuels and biomaterials (i.e., packaging) thus addressing the sustainability aspects covered by the UN´s 2030 program.
Therefore, in this Special Issue we are accepting manuscripts (original research articles or reviews) dealing with the use of conventional and innovative approaches for the sustainable use of food wastes and subproducts from agricultural and marine to obtain nutrients and bioactive compounds, bioingredients, biomaterials, biofuels, packaging products, others.
Prof. Dr. Francisco J. Barba
Prof. Dr. Celia Carrillo
Prof. Dr. Iris Catiana Zampini
Prof. Dr. Isla Mariá Inés
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Food waste and side streams
- Nutrients and bioactive compounds
- Functional properties
- Bioingredients
- Biofuels
- Biomaterial-nanomaterial
- Packaging products
- Conventional extraction
- Innovative extraction
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