Technological Strategy for Fermented Food and Its By-Products Utilization and Upcycling
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2024) | Viewed by 1344
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food composition and analysis; healthy foods; food by-product valorization; functional ingredients; antioxidants; prebiotics and probiotics; allergens; antinutritional factors
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: healthy foods; functional ingredients; antioxidant compounds; seeds; vegetable proteins and peptides; polyphenols; bioaccesibility; bioavailability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The production of fermented fruit and cereals, and also of pseudo-cereals and legumes, is one of the main activities of the food industry in an increasing number of countries. Industrial fermentation processes generate by-products whose valorization is very limited. Pomaces of spent yeasts, lees, trubs and so on are mainly considered wastes that are expensive to dispose of. From a circular economy viewpoint, these by-products should be valorized by exploiting their bioactive molecule contents, e.g. antioxidants, fiber mineral salts, and protein. These strategies should be optimized to obtain functional ingredients for formulations, maybe with other eco-sustainable components, which will be technologically useful for new health food development.
In this Special Issue, we invite the submission of original research, review articles, and opinions on both innovative and traditional technologies for the exploitation of vegetal fermented by-products as eco-friendly and sustainable sources of ingredients for food fortification.
Dr. Corrado Rizzi
Prof. Dr. Valeria A. Tironi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fermented vegetable
- by-products valorization
- innovative foods formulations
- functional ingredient
- technological characteristics and impacts
- health food development
