title: Current and New Insights in the Sustainable and Green Recovery of Nutritionally Valuable Compounds from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni.
abstract: The South American plant Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is a great source of noncaloric sweeteners (steviol glycosides), mainly concentrated in its leaves, but also has important antioxidant compounds (vitamin C, polyphenols, chlorophylls, and carotenoids) and other important macro- and micronutrients such as folic acid and all of the essential amino acids except tryptophan. Traditionally, conventional methods have been used to recover nutritionally valuable compounds from plant food matrices. However, nowadays, the need for obtaining greener, sustainable, and viable processes has led both food industries and food scientists to develop new processes in full correspondence with the green extraction concept. This review focuses on some of the most promising nonconventional and emerging technologies, which may constitute a potential alternative to conventional methods or even could be combined to obtain a synergistic effect, thus reducing extraction time as well as solvent consumption and avoiding the use of toxic solvents.
authors.affiliation: †Laboratoire Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable (UTC/ESCOM, EA 4297 TIMR), Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Sorbonne Universités, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, B.P. 20529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koubaa
authors.affiliation: ‡Nutrition and Food Science Area, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de València, Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València Spain.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Roselló-Soto
authors.affiliation: §Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Šic Žlabur
authors.affiliation: §Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Anet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Režek Jambrak
authors.affiliation: §Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Mladen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brnčić
authors.affiliation: †Laboratoire Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable (UTC/ESCOM, EA 4297 TIMR), Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Sorbonne Universités, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, B.P. 20529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Grimi
authors.affiliation: †Laboratoire Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable (UTC/ESCOM, EA 4297 TIMR), Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Sorbonne Universités, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, B.P. 20529, 60205 Compiègne Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boussetta
authors.affiliation: ‡Nutrition and Food Science Area, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de València, Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, València Spain.
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Barba
mesh_terms: D055772:Green Chemistry Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D009753:Nutritive Value; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry; D036625:Stevia / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts
keywords: Stevia rebaudiana; acoustic technologies; conventional extraction; food additives; microwave assisted extraction; nutraceuticals; pulsed electric technologies; sub- and supercritical fluid extraction