Biotechnological Valorization Approaches for Food Waste
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fermentation process management; biofuel; biorefinery; value-added products
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Dear Colleagues,
Food waste, produced throughout the entire food supply chain, contains valuable bioactive compounds. Due to its composition, food waste represents a suitable feedstock for biorefineries for obtaining value-added products while minimizing environmental problems and helping the economy and society. Currently, biotechnological approaches are implemented as novel and green applications for food waste valorization and for improving their stability and applicability.
The aim of this Special Issue is to consider original studies on food waste reutilization techniques, mainly based on fermentation processes, such as submerged fermentation, solid state fermentation, and immobilized cell fermentation, for enhancing biofuel production and obtaining bioactive compounds, bioplastics, biopolymers, biofertilizers, enzymes, organic acids, or single-cell proteins. Moreover, research on valorization methods for consumable food waste for functional food production will also be considered.
Dr. Alessia Tropea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agricultural food waste
- agricultural byproduct
- food waste management
- waste valorization
- nanotechnology
- biotechnology
- food application
- fermentation process
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