Advancing Green and Sustainable Technologies: Recovery and Valorization of Bioactive Compounds from Food By-Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 368
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioprocesses; bioproducts research
Interests: agro-food waste upcycling; biorefinery approach; fungal enzyme production; green precipitation
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the establishment of the circular bioeconomy, there has been an industrial growing interest in making most of the processes more circular and sustainable for obtaining and transforming food and derivative side streams. Since the food supply chain still has some drawbacks to overcome related to food waste and by-products valorization, technological trends seek to take advantage of these materials generated from food transformation to extract products of industrial interest, while non-toxic and hazardous reagent are avoided. Particularly research focused on the extraction and recovery of bioactive compounds using green and sustainable technologies including but not limited to deep eutectic solvents, microwave, enzymatic assisted extraction, solid and liquid fermentations, that seek to streamline and/or optimize processing processes has attracted great interest. This topic will collect scientific and technological advances in the extraction of bioactive compounds through green and sustainable technologies from different wastes.
Prof. Dr. Mónica L. Chávez-González
Dr. Ricardo Gómez-García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- green extraction
- sustainable techniques
- bioprocessing
- green technologies
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