title: New advances in the integrated management of food processing by-products in Europe: sustainable exploitation of fruit and cereal processing by-products with the production of new food products (NAMASTE EU).
abstract: By-products generated every year by the European fruit and cereal processing industry currently exceed several million tons. They are disposed of mainly through landfills and thus are largely unexploited sources of several valuable biobased compounds potentially profitable in the formulation of novel food products. The opportunity to design novel strategies to turn them into added value products and food ingredients via novel and sustainable processes is the main target of recently EC-funded FP7 project NAMASTE-EU. NAMASTE-EU aims at developing new laboratory-scale protocols and processes for the exploitation of citrus processing by-products and wheat bran surpluses via the production of ingredients useful for the formulation of new beverage and food products. Among the main results achieved in the first two years of the project, there are the development and assessment of procedures for the selection, stabilization and the physical/biological treatment of citrus and wheat processing by-products, the obtainment and recovery of some bioactive molecules and ingredients and the development of procedures for assessing the quality of the obtained ingredients and for their exploitation in the preparation of new food products.
authors.affiliation: University of Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: fabio.fava@unibo.it.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fava
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zanaroli
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vannini
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guerzoni
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bordoni
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Viaggi
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Waldron
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bald
authors.forename: Aintzane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Esturo
authors.forename: Clara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Talens
authors.forename: Itziar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tueros
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cebrián
authors.forename: András
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sebők
authors.forename: Tunde
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuti
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Broeze
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Macias
authors.forename: Hans-Georg
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Brendle
mesh_terms: D002957:Citrus; D005062:European Union; D005525:Food-Processing Industry / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007220:Industrial Waste; D014908:Triticum; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste