1. Sustainable approaches on industrial food wastes to value-added products – A review on extraction methods, characterizations, and its biomedical applications.
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Jayanthi Antonisamy, Arul, Marimuthu, Sivasankari, Malayandi, Sankar, Rajendran, Karthikeyan, Lin, Yuan-Chung, Andaluri, Gangadhar, Lee, Siew Ling, and Ponnusamy, Vinoth Kumar
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FRUIT skins , *INDUSTRIAL wastes , *WASTE products , *FOOD industry , *FRUIT processing , *FRUIT seeds , *FOOD industrial waste - Abstract
The concept of zero waste discharge has been gaining importance in recent years towards attaining a sustainable environment. Fruit processing industries generate millions of tons of byproducts like fruit peels and seeds, and their disposal poses an environmental threat. The concept of extracting value-added bioactive compounds from bio-waste is an excellent opportunity to mitigate environmental issues. To date, significant research has been carried out on the extraction of essential biomolecules, particularly polysaccharides from waste generated by fruit processing industries. In this review article, we aim to summarize the different extraction methodologies, characterization methods, and biomedical applications of polysaccharides extracted from seeds and peels of different fruit sources. The review also focuses on the general scheme of extraction of polysaccharides from fruit waste with special emphasis on various methods used in extraction. Also, the various types of polysaccharides obtained from fruit processing industrial wastes are explained in consonance with the important techniques related to the structural elucidation of polysaccharides obtained from seed and peel waste. The use of seed polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients and the application of peel polysaccharides possessing biological activities are also elaborated. • Food processing industries generates millions of tons of food wastes yearly. • Massive fruit waste disposal poses a major treat to environment. • Extraction of value-added bioactive compounds from fruit waste for sustainability. • Various extraction methodologies and physicochemical characterization were discussed. • Summarized the biomedical applications of polysaccharides from food waste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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