Frontiers in Sustainable Agro-Food Waste and Byproducts Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 8637
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vibrational spectroscopy, near infrared spectroscopy; colour; foods; polyphenols; wine; grape chemistry; by-product usage
Interests: by-products revalorization; phenolics compounds; colour; antioxidant activity; grape pomace; wine; grape; multivariate statistic
Interests: antioxidants; wine; physico-chemical properties; aroma; anthocyanins
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The agro-food industry covers a wide range of activities using agricultural, animal, and forest products as raw materials. This industry plays an important role related to the global economy and, therefore, must comply with the increasingly demanding health and safety requirements in terms of environmental legislation, safety, and sustainable production. In this sense, waste management is usually a problem for most companies, mainly due to its difficult elimination due to its high content of organic matter, among others. However, not only is the effective and innocuous elimination of waste important to avoid environmental risks but also the search for alternative uses that allow its revalorization. Therefore, there is a need to seek and implement innovative solutions in waste management that allow the development of a sustainable industry.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the different strategies aimed at achieving sustainable treatment of waste from the agro-food industry, as well as its revalorization through its transformation into useful by-products and even into raw materials for other industries.
Prof. Dr. Berta Baca-Bocanegra
Prof. Dr. M. Luisa Escudero-Gilete
Dr. María José Jara Palacios
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agro-food industry
- agricultural product
- food
- waste management
- byproduct
- revalorization
- sustainable industry
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