Advances and Applications of Food Industry By-Products
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1118
Special Issue Editor
Interests: viscosity; food preservation; food processing and engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
In scientific research, food industry by-products (FIBs) have attracted interest as valuable raw material for many decades. On the other hand, sustainable food production has become a must in recent years and this research field is gaining importance not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the industrial point of view.
With the EU concept of using by-products first as food, second as feed and and third as fuel, FIBs have emerged as an inexhaustible topic in science. This includes the use of food in its “as-is” state, or modified, raw material for the extraction of bioactive components and isolation of fibre, substrates for microbial production of oil, biofuels, mushrooms, use for incapsulation, water purification, etc. Along with the benefits of FIBs, attention should be focused on resolving issues such as microbial contaminantion, pesticides and PAHs in order to increase their safety for use in food and feed. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to cover topics including (but not limited to) the following:
- Use of FIB in food production—influence on processing issues, sensory properties, stability, etc., and nutritive value of food.
- Use of FIB in animal feed.
- Safety issues.
- (Extraction of) bioactive components from FIB and potential of their use in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.
- Fibre isolation from FIB with further application (incapsulation, food production, etc.).
- FIB as adsorbents in water purification.
- FIB as substrates in microbial fermentation.
Dr. Djurdjica Ačkar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- fibre
- extraction
- food processing
- nutritive value
- safety
- biofuel
- water purification
- incapsualtion
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