Different Strategies for the Reuse and Valorization of Food Waste
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: applied nutrition; polyphenols; antioxidant activity; omega-3; retinoic acid; novel foods; food chemistry; cancer biology; hypertension; breast tissue microbiota; gut microbiota; omega-3 and microbiota
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is estimated that in 2022, approximately 1.05 billion tons of food were wasted globally. Of the food available to consumers, 19% was wasted at the retail, food service, and household levels, in addition to 13% of global food lost in the food supply chain. This waste determines 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions and determines the waste of land, water, energy, and labor, with important economic repercussions. It should also be considered that waste materials are often rich in highly nutritional compounds, even higher than currently marketed products.
For these reasons, new strategies are urgently needed to reduce, reuse, and valorize food waste. This Special Issue aims to explore the issues related to the recovery of food matrices through new and different strategies with the objective of creating new products, ingredients, or methods to reduce food waste.
Dr. Lara Costantini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food waste
- fibers
- phytochemicals
- food analysis
- functional foods
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