A Structured Approach to Recover Valuable Compounds from Agri-food Side Streams

Mónica Moreno-González, Marcel Ottens*

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Abstract

Food side streams contain useful compounds such as proteins, sugars, polyphenols, and amino acids that might get discarded during processing. The concentration of these components may be low (e.g., fruit side streams are mainly composed by water, around 90%, while polyphenol content in rapeseed meal is less than 3% dry weight) and therefore effective separation techniques should be evaluated. The aim of this review is to identify the different process steps (like pretreatment, volume reduction, phase change, solid removal, purification, and formulation) required to recover high-value products from agri-food residues. It reviews different plant-based byproducts as sources (cereal bran, fruit pomace, oilseed meals, fruit wastewater) of valuable compounds and discusses the relevant technologies required for processing (such as extraction, adsorption, crystallization, drying, among others). A structured approach to design recovery processes presented focused on high purity products. This work demonstrates that multiple high-value products can be recovered from a single agri-food side stream depending on the processing steps and the origin source (strong and soft structures and wastewater).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1387-1406
Number of pages20
JournalFood and Bioprocess Technology
Volume14
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Food side streams
  • Polyphenols
  • Protein
  • Separation technologies
  • Valorization

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