title: Bioactives from fruit processing wastes: Green approaches to valuable chemicals.
abstract: Fruit processing industries contribute more than 0.5billion tonnes of waste worldwide. The global availability of this feedstock and its untapped potential has encouraged researchers to perform detailed studies on value-addition potential of fruit processing waste (FPW). Compared to general food or other biomass derived waste, FPW are found to be selective and concentrated in nature. The peels, pomace and seed fractions of FPW could potentially be a good feedstock for recovery of bioactive compounds such as pectin, lipids, flavonoids, dietary fibres etc. A novel bio-refinery approach would aim to produce a wider range of valuable chemicals from FPW. The wastes from majority of the extraction processes may further be used as renewable sources for production of biofuels. The literature on value addition to fruit derived waste is diverse. This paper presents a review of fruit waste derived bioactives. The financial challenges encountered in existing methods are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: CTARA, IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.
authors.forename: Jhumur
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.affiliation: CTARA, IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.
authors.forename: Ramkrishna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vijayaraghavan
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: MacFarlane
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Antonio F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Patti
authors.affiliation: CTARA, IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India. Electronic address: aarora@iitb.ac.in.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arora
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D018533:Biomass; D005638:Fruit / Q000737:chemistry*; D018505:Waste Management
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels
keywords: Bioactives; Biorefinery; Fruit processing waste; Nutraceuticals