Rethinking Agri-Food and Marine Waste and Byproducts for Circular and Sustainable Bio-Based Food Packaging
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 74763
Special Issue Editors
Interests: foodomics; food chemistry; agri-food waste valorization; carbohydrate analysis and modifications; biomaterials; active packaging; volatile metabolites; essential oils; primary oxidation TAGs; GC- and LC-based techniques
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Interests: extrusion; polymer science; carbohydrate chemistry; starch; plant cell walls; phenolics; food functionality; food packaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agri-food and marine waste/byproducts are a ubiquitous and abundant source of low-cost, natural, and renewable biomolecules, such as carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and (poly)phenolics, with great upcycling into food packaging materials.
Their efficient revalorization would not only decrease the volume of problematic waste accumulated in the environment but also result in the generation of value-added compounds for the packaging of tomorrow. Therefore, composition, structure, molecular interactions, and compatibilization under thermomechanical processing into packaging materials, of wasted agri-food and marine biomass needs to be mechanistically understood. This Special Issue seeks to provide a fundamental understanding and novel strategies to improve the performance of biodegradable packaging materials throughout agri-food/marine compounds, a scientific hotspot in recent decades. This Special Issue will also cover feasible strategies to overcome the challenges in the application of agri-food and marine waste/byproducts as functional building blocks for fully bio-based/biodegradable food packaging following sustainability and circular economy principles.
Dr. Sílvia Petronilho
Dr. Mario M. Martinez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agri-food and marine waste/byproduct valorization
- biopolymer chemistry and physics
- sustainable aerogels/hydrogels
- natural extracts
- biopolymer-based materials
- biofilms
- bioplastics
- food packaging
- circular bioeconomy